{"id":1630288,"date":"2022-09-02T05:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630288"},"modified":"2022-09-02T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:34:56","slug":"battle-to-halt-amazon-deforestation-laid-bare-in-film-the-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/battle-to-halt-amazon-deforestation-laid-bare-in-film-the-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle to halt Amazon deforestation laid bare in film \u2018The Territory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbattle-to-halt-amazon-deforestation-laid-bare-in-film-the-territory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Marie-Louise Gumuchian<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Filmmaker Alex Pritz delves into the shrinking heart of the Amazon basin in documentary \u201cThe Territory\u201d, depicting the dangers that one indigenous tribe faces in protecting its heritage at a pivotal moment for the world\u2019s largest rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. cinematographer-turned-director follows members of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe as they try to stop farmers and settlers from taking their ancestral lands in the state of Rondonia.<\/p>\n<p>The tribes \u201care doing it to defend themselves and their home,\u201d Pritz told Reuters on Wednesday in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s also really important for the rest of us outside of Brazil to recognise that they\u2019re doing it for us too, and that their work is helping save all of us from the worst effects of our own emissions on this warming planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illegal logging and mining in the Brazilian Amazon has surged under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has pushed to allow more mining and commercial farming there to reduce poverty while cutting back environmental enforcement and defunding indigenous agency Funai.<\/p>\n<p>In making what is his first feature-length documentary, Pritz also spent time with the farmers who dream of carving out their own patch of land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey see themselves as these virtuous pioneers going out and turning wilderness into private property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026One of the settlers says Brazil was created like this and every other country too and he\u2019s right. Most colonial states were birthed out of indigenous land expropriation \u2026 and so it felt really important to all of us to try to understand that and capture those people in those parts of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on Brazil\u2019s indigenous people and invasions of their lands by illegal miners and loggers, mainly in the Amazon, increased sharply in 2021, escalating an already \u201cterrifying\u201d situation, the Catholic Church\u2019s Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) said last month.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental activists are likewise in the firing line. <\/p>\n<p>In June, British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered during a research trip in a remote part of the Amazon invaded by illegal fishermen, loggers and gold miners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation, especially for indigenous people, is getting worse,\u201d Pritz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Territory\u201d opens in UK cinemas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by John Stonestreet)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/battle-to-halt-amazon-2\/file-photo-an-indigenous-man-called-tebu-of-uru-eu-wau-wau-tribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022L-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022L-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2744105\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022M-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2744108\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022N-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8022N-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Filmmaker Alex Pritz delves into the shrinking heart of the Amazon basin in documentary \u201cThe Territory\u201d, depicting the dangers that one indigenous tribe faces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}