BREAKING NEWS: Investigative journalists have just revealed land-grabbers
are selling stolen Amazon rainforest on Facebook. 

Tell Facebook to listen to indigenous communities who live there and stop
stolen land being advertised on its Marketplace, NOW.

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John,

For sale on Facebook: Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. 

A groundbreaking BBC investigation has just revealed that plots of Amazon
rainforest -- including national forests and land reserved for indigenous
peoples -- is being sold illegally via Facebook’s classified ads service,
Marketplace.

And Facebook doesn’t seem to want to do much about it.

Fuelled by the cattle ranching industry, and in the knowledge that remote
locations won’t be inspected by the authorities, ‘investors’ are clearing
forest ready for farming and selling it off.

Facebook, once again, is hiding behind its usual excuse that it ‘requires
buyers and sellers to comply with laws and regulations’. But really, does
it expect land invaders willing to steal land from indigenous communities
to care about its toothless policy?

[ Facebook: ]Facebook: stop land invaders from selling stolen land on Marketplace!

Indigenous communities like the Uru Eu Wau Wau people rely on the land to
hunt, fish and collect fruits.

But with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon at a 10-year high,
continued land grabs are described by community leader Bitaté Uru Eu Wau
Wau as an attempt ‘to deforest our lives’.

To make matters worse, those involved in the illegal land market do so
expecting the Bolsonaro government will declare an amnesty on the stolen
land. Once they’ve deforested it they plead with politicians to abolish
its protected status, on the basis it no longer serves its original
purpose. Then they can legalise their claims.

And Facebook Marketplace has become their go-to site to sell plots up to
the size of 1,000 football pitches.

[ Facebook: ]Facebook: stop land crimes from being committed on your platform.

Tell Facebook it can’t look away while land invaders profit from their
crimes on its platform.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Ignacio, Sondhya, David and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads BBC, 25
February 2021

 

 

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