From the Pantanal and the Amazon, PhD in Conservation Science. Environmental analyst @ibamagov / Pantaneira e Amazônida doutora em ciências da conservação.
E em plena Semana Mundial do Meio Ambiente, o governo Lula mostra sua preocupação com a área ambiental: antes de caírem as cortinas da teatral semana comemorativa, o MGI comunicou oficialmente a representação dos servidores da área ambiental que não haverá acordo com o governo.🧶
This week marks the beginning of the G20, organized and hosted by Brazil, which has proposed the theme "Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet" .
But is the host country sustainable?
In 2023, Brazil demonstrated its ability to reduce deforestation in the Amazon and lead significant sustainability advancements, after years of environmental chaos caused by a far-right government.
It was a tough battle, organized and fought by federal public servants in the environmental sector, who now call on President Lula to recognize their efforts.
These servants were persecuted and harassed over the last decade by authoritarian governments and economic sectors that do not believe in sustainability and destroy Brazil's forests and biodiversity.
Currently, federal environmental servants are not in the field monitoring environmental damage or analyzing licenses for Brazilian government projects. Everyone is on hold, waiting for justice for the results achieved in 2023 and in the past.
Currently, a public servant with a Ph.D., a rare specialist of the Amazon, earns less than $4,000, and we are easily being co-opted by NGOs and international organizations, which makes the institution even more fragile.
If Brazil wants to propose a "sustainable world" to the G20, it needs first to take better care of those who work with the planet's greatest biodiversity.
Leitura obrigatória do dia:
Como os DESVALORIZADOS servidores do IBAMA deram a @LulaOficial o MELHOR resultado do seu governo.
Esforço, competência e inteligência.
https://t.co/nQXLWF3Jy5
"After seeing deforestation and fire rates drop in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes in 2023, Brazil is at risk of seeing a resurgence in the loss of native vegetation amid a strike that has been going on for over a month by employees of Ibama, the federal agency responsible for protecting and monitoring the environment."
https://t.co/M4ZkxjdOTS
The people responsible for taking care of Brazil’s environment are on strike and need your help!
For years, Brazil endured a period of environmental decline, including deforestation in the Amazon, devastating fires in the Pantanal, oil spills in the ocean, and tragic dam collapses. Environmentalists faced persecution, and vital environmental laws have been systematically dismantled. Under Bolsonaro’s government, environmental public servants were targeted, facing dismissals, defamation, investigations, harassment, persecution, and obstruction. Despite these challenges, these dedicated public servants bravely fought back, playing a crucial role in mitigating what could have been a worse environmental tragedy.
This dark era came to an end in January 2023 with the inauguration of President Lula’s government, which brought hope for better times and a commitment to the environment. The new administration restored the role of environmental public servants, and under their leadership, results and goals were quickly achieved, including a reduction in Amazon deforestation and a significant decrease in illegal mining on indigenous lands, as reported in the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28).
These achievements were hard-won solely by environmental public servants through long hours, poor conditions, few staff, and salaries that don’t reflect the responsibility of safeguarding humanity’s future.
An environmental career public servant earns a maximum of $3,000, at the highest career level, to oversee the entire Amazon Forest and other biomes, monitor Brazil’s coast and environment, license projects (including oil wells), ensure the quality of water, air, and soil, combat international wildlife trafficking, manage conservation units, respond quickly to environmental disasters, restore degraded areas, and much more…
Yes, all this is done by a few highly qualified officials earning less than $3,000! Many leave their environmental careers for better job opportunities in NGOs and international organizations.
This salary is insufficient when considering the high cost of living, especially in urban areas where many environmental officials are based or frequently operate. Costs with housing, transportation, healthcare, and education in Brazil can quickly deplete such salary. Also, the demanding nature of our work, which includes extensive field operations in remote and often hazardous conditions, coupled with the need for continuous professional development, underscores the inadequacy of our compensation. The salary doesn’t align with the critical nature of our responsibilities and fails to provide a stable or comfortable living standard given Brazil’s economic fluctuation and inflation rates.
The public servants have submitted a proposal for career restructuring to the current government, with adjustments that could significantly change our reality. Unfortunately, the response we received doesn’t match the environmental policy that Lula’s government promotes, ignoring us and placing the environmental career below other governmental categories that were favored by the Bolsonaro administration and used in attempts to destabilize Brazilian democracy.
We are therefore asking for your help to amplify this message, urging Lula’s government to explain to the world why those responsible for the Amazon don’t deserve fair compensation and a strengthened career.
Lula’s government has a unique opportunity to show the world how to address environmental care and climate change seriously and committedly, with valued officials and our work recognized both in Brazil and globally.
AVISO!
Infelizmente vamos apelar e mostrar pro MUNDO a situação dos servidores q cuidam da maior biodiversidade do planeta.
Portanto, @LulaOficial e @MarinaSilva, estejam preparados pra responder a razão do desdém da @edweck_rj em suas reuniões e entrevistas no exterior.
Hoje, em pleno dia da árvore, servidores do MMA, do IBAMA e do ICMBio estão PARALISADOS em todo o Brasil para chamar a atenção das autoridades para a importância do fortalecimento das instituições ambientais e da carreira.
#10anosdeabandono#reestruturaçãojá
🌏🌿Os servidores da CEMA e do PECMA são pilares da conservação ambiental. É hora de agir e apoiar a #reestruturaçãojá para que possam continuar protegendo nossa natureza e construindo um amanhã sustentável. 🌳💪 #10anosdeabandono#ibama#icmbio#sfb#mma@MarinaSilva @edweck_r
SHOW DE POLITICAGEM.
Com os ânimos acirrados, os políticos do Amapá promoveram e disseminaram MENTIRAS por mais de 5 horas, dizendo que o IBAMA estava cometendo “um crime”. Ignorando que o Ibama segue orientações técnicas para evitar um colapso ambiental.
https://t.co/7zMHz0uavG
Galera:
Não é pq o animal é bonitinho, os vídeos são fofos e o "tutor" é bonito que vamos aliviar um crime ambiental q estimula o cometimento de outros crimes ambientais.
A lei é pra TODOS, do garimpeiro ao tik toker.
ANIMAL SILVESTRE tem que ficar LIVRE.
E lembrem disso👇