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season of July and August 2019, when they set

fi re to the bulldozed debris, the ensuing smoke

caused day to turn to night in distant São Paulo

and made international news that the jungle itself

was burning. Given the extent of deforestation, it

might as well have been.

The pattern repeated in 2020 to an even

greater degree, augmented by enormous wild-

fi res in the Pantanal grasslands to the southwest

of the Amazon basin. Early that year Covid-19

was known to be approaching, but it had bare-

ly touched down in São Paulo and had not yet

entered the forests when IBAMA, despite the

ascent of Bolsonaro, the agency’s mortal enemy,

decided to proceed according to its still-stand-

ing mandates and take action against the rad-

ical encroachments in Ituna-Itatá. Given that

IBAMA’s helicopter campaign ran counter to

Bolsonaro’s desires, the surprise was that the

agents were able to draw it out for months. It

was not, however, destined to succeed.

The video Luz took of himself turned out to

be eff ective. After his release, he sought out the

senior IBAMA agent, this time at the agency’s

Altamira base, and said: ‘‘Do you know why I

am trying to get you to stop burning houses?

Do you even have a clue?’’

‘‘Ah, because you work for the farmers. We

k n o w w h o y o u a r e .’’

‘‘Man, I think you should rethink your view. I

am here because your fi res are doing nothing at

all. Those settlers will not leave. Because many

of them have no place to go. They will never

go away. And they will continue to clear the

forest to survive.’’

Over the period that followed, Luz’s eff orts

spread through the Brazilian political ether,

exciting scorn among environmentalists and

mainstream commentators on television but

also in no small measure eliciting sympathy

and admiration from the right-wing forces in

power. In Ituna-Itatá, Luz got what he wanted.

IBAMA was withdrawn from the reserve, and

the principal agents were demoted or fi red as

Bolsonaro’s administration wreaked vengeance

against them for their attempts to enforce the

law. The pandemic arrived at about the same

time, decimating the remnants of environmen-

tal defenses and pushing Indigenous groups

deeper into the reserves. Much to the gloating

of the right wing, the unseen Indigenous peo-

ples of Ituna-Itatá remained unseen.

In December 2021, as required by Ituna-Itatá’s

provisional status, a FUNAI investigator pro-

duced a report that recommended that the

territory should remain protected, as there

continued to be evidence of the existence of

an isolated tribe. This was predictable given the

hard work that FUNAI had done on the ground.

In late January of this year, despite a judicial

decision affi rming the territory’s protections,

FUNAI headquarters in Brasília disagreed and

announced that after 11 years of failing to con-

clusively fi nd an isolated tribe, it was time to

remove Ituna-Itatá’s special status. This was

predictable given the proximity of FUNAI’s

leadership to the Bolsonaro administration. Fed-

eral prosecutors of the famously independent

Ministério Público Federal appealed and, fol-

lowing another judicial order in early February,

FUNAI was forced to reverse itself and extend

the area’s protections, but only by six months.

It seems hardly to matter anymore. About

two years have gone by since the practical col-

lapse of restraints, and in the decimated shell of

the Ituna-Itatá reserve, as in much of the Brazil-

ian Amazon, deforestation has resumed in full

force. The next dry season is fast approaching

and the fi res seem sure to intensify as one sort

of burning is replaced by another.

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