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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Bruno and Dom’s legacy: defend nature’s defenders

The relatives of British journalist Dom Phillips and activists with a banner with his image, on the left, and that of Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP
Ɖ reḷtivz v Britiś jrṇlist Dóm Filips n acṭvists wɖ a banr wɖ hiz imij, on ɖ left, n ɖt v Indijṇs acṭvist Bruno Pereira, in Rio de Janeiro, Bṛzil. Foṭgraf: Bruna Prado/AP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Bruno n Dóm’z leġsi: dfnd nećr’z dfndrz

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 5 June 2023)

Wn yir aftr Bruno Pereira n Dóm Filips wr cild in ɖ Aṃzn, ɖer wrc xplenñ ẃt z haṗnñ ɖr gz on

Munde, 5 Jūn 2023

Ɖ  dsiźn bî Bṛziłn p’līs t ćarj tū mor men wɖ ɖ mrdrz v Bruno Pereira n Dóm Filips, in ɖ Javari Vali rījn v ɖ Aṃzn, brñz ɖ posbiḷti v justis wn step closr. T ɖ ʈri fiśrz olrdi in cusṭdi fr ɖ śūtñz, ẃć tc ples wn yir ago, hv bn add ɖ alejd līdr v a trnznaśnl ilīgl-fiśñ netwrc, Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, nicnemd Colombia (ẃr h olso hz sitiznśp). A forʈ fiśr, Jânio Freitas de Souza, z alejd t hv bn wn v Silva Villar’z hnćṃn on ɖ Itaquaí Rivr, ẃr ɖ cilñz tc ples.

Fr frendz n s’portrz v ɖ tū men’z wrc dfndñ ɖ Aṃzn n its Indijṇs inhabitnts, ɖ invstgeśn’z progres ofrz sm rlif. F sć acts v vayḷns g unpuniśt, criminl orġnîześnz ɖt wīld pǎr in ɖ Aṃzn wl b frɖr imboldnd in ɖer ys. Bt īvn f cnvix́nz r s’krd, ɖs wl b ɖ xpśn n nt ɖ rūl ẃn it cmz t atacs on invîrnmntl dfndrz – dfînd bî ɖ Ynîtd Neśnz az ppl hu strîv t pṛtct hymn rîts rletñ t nećr.

Ɖ riscs asośietd wɖ sć wrc n actvizm hv rizn az ɖ clîṃtcrîsis hz esc̣letd. Cilñz linct t invîrnmntl campenz hv bn monitrd bî Globl Witnis, an NGO, fr a deced. It rcordd 200 in 2021. Fr rportrz, last yir wz ptiklrli dedli. Ɖ Cmiti t Pṛtct Jrṇlists cǎntd 67 victimz, includñ Filips. Fiftīn v ɖz wr in Ycren; olmst haf wr in Latin America n ɖ Caṛbiyn. Ɖs yir ɖr hv so far bn 12 deʈs.

It z tù sn t asrt wɖ confidns ɖt Prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hz s’xidd in endñ ẃt h cōld ɖ “nîtmer” v Jair Bolsonaro’z ira v devsteśn, includñ dīfoṛsteśn n hymn-rîts abysz. Ẃt z srtn z ɖt ppl arnd ɖ wrld, az wel az in Bṛzil, nīd akṛt inḟmeśn abt ɖ complex sićueśn in ɖ wrld’z larjist renforist, ẃć plez a vîtl part in ɖ clîṃtsistm n z amñ ɖ most bîodîvrs plesz on ɖ planit.

Orġnîzd crîm z wn ʈret, wɖ wn formr p’līsćīf wornñ ɖt ilīgl mainrz n drugtraficrz cd form armiz, n tec ovr ɖ rījn, az hapnd in Colombia. Bt multinaśnl mainñ n agṛculćṛl bizṇsz olso cōz hyj damij ẃl mcñ vast profits līġli. Dīfoṛsteśn linct t catlranćñ n logñ axeḷretd dṛmaticli undr Bolsonaro. Bt Lula’z atmts t rvrs it fes pǎrfl opziśn. Ɖ Wrld Banc, ẃć prīvịsli fînanst foristclirñ inḍstriz, hz b’letidli rec̣gnîzd ɖ dstrux́n v ɖ Aṃzn az a marcitfełr on a masiv scel. It, alñ wɖ uɖr globl insttyśnz, mst nǎ b proactiv in fînansñ ɖs jaynt carbn snc. Justis az wel az slf-inṭrest dmandz ɖt globl-norʈ cuntriz contṛbyt t ɖs eḟt, n d nt līv it t Bṛzil.

Wrc t cnsrv ẃt z left v ɖ Aṃzn, in conṣt wɖ its Indijṇs rezidnts, mst b inṭnaśnl bt olso locl. Wɖt îz on ɖ grǎnd, dīp in ɖ jungl az wel az in ɖ wrld’z bōrdrūmz n parḷmnts, nwn nz ẃt z acć̣li haṗnñ ɖr. Pereira n Filips lost ɖer livz trayñ t unḍstand, n t tel ɖ wrld, abt eḟts t dveḷp ɖ Aṃzn – n abt eḟts t rzist sć dveḷpmnt in fevr v les dstructiv oltrṇtivz. It’s in ol ǎr inṭrests t cari on ẃt ɖe bgan.

Instroduction to Ñspel

"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925