(17 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS -
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 17 June 2025
1. Various of Indigenous people dancing and chanting in protest against the auction of dozens of oil blocks, including blocks near the mouth of the Amazon River
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosines Kamunu, 58-year-old, Indigenous from Manoki people:
“Our territories are being invaded, and we have nowhere else to go. That’s where we’re from — we have nowhere to leave to. That’s our concern, and that’s why we’re here in Rio de Janeiro. We traveled over 2,000 kilometers to be here, to speak up, because we can no longer accept the violation of our rights.”
3. Car entering in the building where the oil auction is taking place
4. Pan from the building where the auction is taking place to the demonstration
5. Demonstrators speaking on top of a sound truck with a placard reading (Portuguese) "Stop the Judgment Day auction"
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Nicole Oliveira, 44-year-old Executive Director of Arayara Institute:
“We are here protesting against the expansion of Brazil’s oil exploration frontier, the significant carbon emissions from a single auction, and the threats it poses to biomes, traditional communities, and Indigenous peoples.”
7. People at the demonstration
8. Various of woman having her face painted
9. Giovani Tapura, 45-year-old, Indigenous man from Manoki people:
“We know this is going to affect us. We live in a region with clean drinking water, a very beautiful area, and once that drilling happens, we know it will pollute our environment.”
10. Demonstrators outside the building
STORYLINE:
Indigenous people and activists protested on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro as Brazil auctioned dozens of oil blocks including the mouth of the Amazon River.
The auctions took place in a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro and were conducted by the National Oil Agency.
Most of the 172 blocks for sale are located in areas with no current production, such as 47 offshore locations close to the Amazon River and two sites at an inland territory in the Amazon near Indigenous territories.
In total, at least 19 offshore blocks near the Amazon River were awarded to oil companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petrobras and CNPC.
The area is considered highly promising because it shares geological characteristics with Guyana, where some of the largest offshore oil discoveries of the 21st century have been made.
This region is considered to have high potential risk due to its strong currents and the proximity to the Amazon seashore.
“We traveled over 2,000 kilometers to be here, to speak up, because we can no longer accept the violation of our rights,” said Rosines Kamunu, a woman from Indigenous Manoki people in the state of Mato Grosso.
Under public pressure from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, known as IBAMA, approved an emergency plan allowing state-run Petrobras to conduct exploratory drilling in a b... [truncated]
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