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On Sunday 9th of October, Teatro Mungange is hosting a preview of ‘The Letter’; a documentary featuring Chief Dada and Pope Francis made in collaboration with Laudato Si and Off the Fence production company. Joining the event is Chief Dada himself, his companions, and Forest Forces founder Tim Boekhout van Solinge.

Chief Dadá is on a two-week tour across Europe to share his story and vision of a sustainable and just future. Among many things, his agenda includes talking at the Blue Earth Summit and Wildscreen festival in Bristol, and watching the premiere of ‘The Letter’ in the Vatican with Pope Francis. After filming the documentary during the peaks of the pandemic, they are reunited to see the result of their powerful alliance, and advocate loudly for taking action against the planetary crisis.

At Teatro Munganga, watch the preview of ‘The Letter’ and join in the conversation about how developments of illegal deforestation and logging in the Amazon has impacted its inhabitants and ecology with Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge and Chief Dadá. Chief of the Noke Koi and Katuquina indigenous people from Gregório River in Brazil, Kamarati, will also be there to perform traditional songs and chants.

We look forward to an inspiring evening full of stories from the forest and to come together for such an important mission – to protect and stand for nature.

Watch ‘The Letter’ trailer here.

Buy your ticket here

Address: Schinkelhavenstraat 27 hs, 1075 VP Amsterdam

Time: 19:00 (doors open 18:30)

Tickets: 15 eur. All funds will donated to Forest Forces Foundation to act upon the devastating effect of deforestation and its growing threats. Find out more about donations here.

This June, four representatives of environmental organizations (including Forest Forces and WWF Brasil) had a debate on how to best fight forest crime in the World Rainforest Day Summit

Nearly 500 people attended the event on the 22nd of June. At the summit, director of Forest Forces Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge argues why technological advances such as satellites fail to stop illegal logging (23:12), and explains the methods employed at Forest Forces. Maintaining an affordable, effective and simple approach, listen in at 38:27 to learn more about how Forest Forces is successful in leading forest crime prevention actions without collaborating with corrupt governmental institutions.

Watch the World Rainforest Day Summit here.

In this exclusive clip, Pope Francis discusses climate change and how it affects us all. It’s all part of the Dear Earth special; an epic global celebration of our planet and what we need to do to slow climate change. Sprinkled with musical performances, Dear Earth also contains well-known climate activists, creators and celebs who will all share ways to make our lives more sustainable. One of these climate activists is Chief Dadá!

After numerous Covid-19 tests and a ten-day quarantine, two indigenous leaders from Pará (Chief Dadá Borari and his brother Poraborari) participated at the Vatican in a meeting of the Laudato Si Movement with Pope Francis.

Chief Dadá was personally invited by Pope Francis for this special meeting. On the photo you can see Pope Francis holding Dadá’s letter of reply to the Pope, written on wood from the Amazon forest. Dadá is holding a small statue of Francis in his hands. In the church in the Amazon they have a very old broken 19th century statue so in the village they had asked for a new one. Now Dadá has a new statue from the Vatican, blessed by the Pope.

Dadá was singing a traditional song (“We are warriors, I am a warrior”) and he told that he and Pope Francis danced the Surara.

More info: https://www.vaticannews.va/pt/papa/news/2021-08/papa-francisco-indigenas-brasileiros-vaticano.html 

Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge has been interviewed at Critica Brazil, a daily online news platform on YouTube, about environmental crime in Brazil and illegal drugs.

The interview has already been watched 95,000 times within 2 weeks!
Watch the interview on YouTube (in Portuguese)

The Brand Called You interviewed Tim Boekhout van Solinge (independent criminologist and consultant indigenous forest protection and of course the founder of Forest Forces) about organized forest crime and how to prevent it.

Tune in and learn how Tim Boekhout is preventing forest crime with the forest law enforcement he’s set in the Amazon. Learn about what is organized forest crime in this video and how Tim is preventing it with the help of GPS!

Watch the video on YouTube

Dutch pension funds invest millions of euros in the Brazilian JBS. Bills of lading that KRO-NCRV’s Pointer and newspaper Trouw obtained from Brazilian medium Agência Pública show that JBS bought cattle from the indigenous, protected Kayabí area in the Brazilian Amazon, where commercial trade and large-scale deforestation have been banned since 2013.

Read the full article (in Dutch)

Brazilian news, originally from National Geographic Brasil is this interview with Dada (Chief of Maró Indigenous Territory).

The Maró Indigenous land has been claimed by the Borari and Arapium people for 20 years. This claim, as well as 16 other processes, are waiting for ratification by the Ministry of Justice, because they are stalled. Meanwhile, pressure from loggers and squatters continue…

Read the full article (in Portuguese)

Indigenous people from the Açaizal village in Santarém, in western Pará, released a video on Thursday to denounce the deforestation that was taking place in the lands of the Munduruku people. According to the complaint, a license was granted for a businessman to work with soy cultivation in an area which, according to chief Manoel Munduruku (chief of Ipaupixuna Indigenous Territory), is indigenous. According to the defense of the accused businessman, the area is properly documented and owner Ivo Ruaro has a license to plant grain.

Read the full article and watch the video (in Portuguese)