Armed attack on Brazilian Amazon community while delegate is at Cop26

Witnesses say tents in forest in disputed area of Pará state are set alight and residents beaten What is Cop26 and why does it matter? The complete guideA land defender from Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, said armed men have attacked a forest community she defends while she was at the Cop26 talks in Glasgow.Claudelice Silva dos Santos, a Cop26 delegate and nominee for the 2019 Sakharov prize, said she had received a phone call sounding the alarm after about 30 pickup trucks arrived at the Sao Vinicius camp at the Tinelli farm in Nova Ixipuna, which is home to about 80 families, at around 3pm local time on 3 November. Continue reading...