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Lago do Soares, Brazil – 17 February 2025
1. Aerial view of the Lago do Soares Indigenous community ++ MUTE++
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Lago do Soares, Brazil – 18 February 2025
2. Various of Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura on boat
3. Mura showing sign placed at site of exploratory well for future potassium drilling UPSOUND (Portuguese) "This is the sign that was put up by the company that carried out the drilling."
4. Various close shots of sign
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Filipe Gabriel Mura, Indigenous leader:
"What they keep saying, both the company and the new coordination of the Mura Indigenous Council, is that this is not Indigenous territory and that the project is not on Indigenous land. But this is also Soares. This is part of Soares, there are families living nearby."
6. View of exploratory well for future potassium drilling; homes on the background
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Moyray, Brazil – 21 February 2025
7. Various aerial of Moyray Village and Iguapenu Lake ++MUTE++
8. Indigenous Mura people arriving to participate in assembly opposing the potassium project
9. Various of Indigenous Mura people danding and playing traditional music
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Amélia Braga, teacher in the Murutinga village:
"We’ve never left our village to go to Canada to dig up what they have there. So, how can they come here, into our land, wanting to mess with everything that God left here?"
11. Wide of assembly
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Leandro Mura, cacique:
"Someone is trying to divide our people. We cannot be divided because we are a warrior people. We are not fantasy Mura, we are real Mura."
13. Cutaway to crowd listening
14. Wide of Professor César Augusto Bubolz Queiroz addressing the assembly
15. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) César Augusto Bubolz Queiroz, history professor at the Federal University of Amazonas:
"(The Canadian company) Potassio do Brasil, by extracting potassium here, especially in Lago do Soares, puts sustainability at risk, puts the Amazon and nature at risk, and puts the survival of the Mura people at risk. The Mura people don’t need Potassio do Brasil."
16. Community leaders making cry of resistance
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Autazes, Brazil – 19 February 2025
17. Aerials of the city of Autazes and the Preto de Pantaleão River ++MUTE++
18. Aerial of building where the Mura Indigenous Council is holding a meeting in support of the potassium project
19. Various of Indigenous Mura people dancing and playing traditional music
20. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Aldinelson Moraes Pavão, vice coordinator of the Mura Indigenous Council:
"The Mura Indigenous Council represents 32 villages. These villages discussed and approved, accepted the project. They accepted the Potassio de Brasil project."
21. Moraes and other leaders addressing the crowd
22. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Aldinelson Moraes Pavão, vice coordinator of the Mura Indigenous Council:
"Five villages split off from the Mura Indigenous Council. They’re forming a resistance group (against the mine.) Nothing against them, but they also need to respect our decision."
23. Band playing traditional music during assembly
24. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Aldinelson Moraes Pavão, vice coordinator of the Mura Indigenous Council:
"The Ministry of the Environment, IPAAM (Institute for Environmental Protection of Amazonas), are all monitoring it. And I believe that no one will be at a disadvantage. After all, it’s not a mine that will be on top of the land. It’s an underground mine. So, for us, I don’t think it would affect anything."
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