Employees of Ibama and other federal professions related to the environmental area have decided to continue the strike that began last week to ensure the restructuring of careers and have announced that they will withdraw their teams from the Yanomami indigenous territory, even after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had announced a strengthening of government actions in the region, which is experiencing a humanitarian crisis.
The assembly of the Council of Entities of Ascema Nacional, held on Wednesday, decided to extend the strikes after the government had limited itself to promising a new cycle of meetings on February 1st, even with the categories that had been demanding negotiations for more than a year year, according to the entity’s note.
“Faced with this scenario, public employees gathered in assemblies in the States and the Federal District decide to focus exclusively on internal and bureaucratic office activities, until the government recognizes the value of the work demands of this strategic career in the federal public service and acts quickly to conclude negotiations,” the industry said in a statement released Thursday.
“This decision also includes the suspension of field actions on Yanomami indigenous land, given the continued shortcomings in working conditions and the results already achieved in environmental protection from 2023,” the entity underlined.
In addition to Ibama, the entity represents employees of the Ministry of the Environment, ICMBio and the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB).
The categories complain of “negligence” on the part of the government and ask for a restructuring of careers, the resolution of work impasses, as well as the holding of a broad public competition for careers.
The categories’ decision represents a serious step backwards for the Lula government, which on Tuesday announced the implementation of a new phase of protection of the Yanomami territory, which will have a permanent presence and an investment of 1.2 billion reais in 2024, according to the Minister of Health. the Civil House, Rui Costa.
The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, and other senior government officials were sent to the area to structure actions aimed at overcoming the crisis.
The director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, said in an interview with Reutersa this week that it is necessary for the full force of the state to be present on site to permanently expel the illegal miners, underlining that the presence of the Federal Police alone is sufficient not enough.
“The Federal Police alone is not enough… You cannot suffocate (crime), alone, with the work of the Federal Police,” Rodrigues said, in an exclusive interview with Reuters, a few hours after attending the meeting on Tuesday led by Lula.
“Not only the Union, but (it is important that) the municipalities and the State can provide services, health care, educational assistance, means of production, offering economic alternatives, in short. It is a whole process that will require, well, the return to normality in that region”, he underlined.
Indigenous leaders in the region say illegal miners are starting to return after the army left a forward base on the reserve, and that the humanitarian crisis continues, with a rise in disease and malnutrition among their population.
Yanomami territory, an area the size of Portugal, has been overrun by miners for decades, but more destructive incursions have multiplied in recent years, especially after then-President Jair Bolsonaro dismantled environmental protection efforts.
Illegal mining and deforestation have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in the territory, marked by malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, as well as sexual abuse. Rivers have been polluted and fish poisoned by mercury used by miners, while the wildlife on which the Yanomami depend has disappeared.
Source: Terra
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