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Faces of the Amazon

By Gabriel Elizondo in

Americas

on December 5th, 2009

Photo by Gabriel Elizondo/Al Jazeera




The
story of the Brazilian Amazon is not a story of giant trees,
rainforests, rivers, exotic reptiles, carbon emissions, or
deforestation, but a story of people.





MANAUS, Brazil - This might come as a shock, but I am going to say it anyway: The story of the Brazilian Amazon is not one of giant trees, rainforests, rivers, exotic reptiles, carbon emissions, or deforestation.

The story of the Amazon in Brazil is one of people.

Often lost in glossy picture books about the Amazon, is the fact
that 21 million people in Brazil alone live in the Amazon territory. To
be exact 20,998,731 according to the latest census.

They live in big cities like Manaus (population 1.7 million) and
Belem (population 1.4 million). They live in small, isolated riverbank
villages made up of a few people with no cell phone service. Places
like Boa Frente (population 94). They are ranchers, indigenous people,
shop owners, drivers, cooks, fishermen, bankers and everything in
between.

I have been fortunate to visit various parts of the Amazon
numerous times and I can’t remember one specific tree. But I can
remember the faces of the people.

These faces are – in my mind - the story of the Brazilian Amazon.

So I want to introduce you to some of them.

Everyday of the Copenhagen climate change conference
(starting Monday, Dec 7 and going until Friday, December 18) I am going
to post to this blog a picture I have taken of a person I have come in
contact with on my most recent reporting trip to the Amazon the past 2
weeks. The photo will accompany a brief bio of the person and their
thoughts – in their own words – about their daily life, struggles,
aspirations and what it’s like to live in the Amazon region of Brazil.
In all, there will be 12 profiles – one per day. I am calling them Faces of the Amazon.

Each biography should not take you more than 5 minutes to read.
They don’t claim to be the stuff of hard-hitting investigative
journalism.

The ‘faces’ you will meet are average, everyday people I have
simply bumped into in one way or another over the course of my
reporting on this trip. Not one is a formal interview I set up in
advance. None are politicians or publicity seekers with an agenda.

They are, however, a diverse group: A 13 year old girl who lives
in a forest reserve; a teen mother from a small town; an Amazon NGO
worker; an elderly man; a fisherman struggling through a drought; a
pilot.

They have one thing in common: In one way or another they all call ‘the Amazon’ home.

If you choose to read them, my hope is that the next time you see
on the news something related to “the Amazon” maybe one of their faces
will come to mind. Because, in the end, the story of the Brazilian
Amazon is about them.

Look for the first installment of 'Faces of the Amazon' on the Al Jazeera Americas blog on Monday.

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