A discussion on safeguarding the Amazon from mercury pollution is scheduled, featuring the documentary “Amazon, the New Minamata?” Conservation scientist Fernando Trujillo and Aileen Mioko Smith, director of Green Action in Japan, will delve into the threats from illegal gold mining and draw parallels between Minamata and the Amazon. This event will shed light on mercury’s impact on Amazonian communities and highlight the Indigenous peoples’ struggle to defend their lands.
In English.
