Gray. This is the dominant color in the fields of Central Plateau between July and September. Gray from the burnings, the dust after the harvest, the blue sky obliterated by the dryness of the air, by the wind that circulates without the natural protection of the Brazilian Savannah ("Cerrado") trees, cut down for the plantation of soy, corn, cotton, and the sugar cane to produce ethanol …
According to Aziz Ab’Sáber, in the Domains of Nature in Brazil – Landscape Potentials, “… the domains of Big Plateaus ("Chapadões") recovered by savannah and penetrated by gallery forests - of diverse compositions – is composed in a physical, ecological, biotic space, of first order of magnitude, with 1.7 to 1.9 million square kilometers of length.”
Second biggest biome in the country, all this immensity of land and unique biological wealth is in a real process of extinction, threatened by the uncontrolled agricultural production. Unprotected by the Federal Constitution of 1988, the biome savannah ("Cerrado") wasn’t contemplated as National Heritage, staying defenseless in relation to the conditions that guarantee the preservation of the environment and the use of natural resources.
As a consequence, the called Open Arboreous Savannah, Park Savannah and Grassy-Woody Savannah, typical of "Chapadões", practically don’t exist anymore. The only areas that survive precariously are the gallery forests and riparian woods that accompany the rivers’ course and constitute areas of permanent preservation, and the called Dense Arboreous Savannah ("Cerradão") that usually lives in regions of more injured topography, still immune to the technology of agricultural machines. Even so, these areas are attacked by coal dealers, usually illegal, that devastate the Big Cerrado to supply the steel-industry with firewood.
The disrespect to the environment protection laws and the poor verification makes that the obligated 20% of Legal Reserve to any rural property be frequently forgotten, heading for the roads, to the cultivated fields and to the called "Cerradão", species in extinction, subjecting to the super population in small spacies and to the runovers and accidents, on the super busy roads that cut off the Plateau.
Resistance tries to help denouncing the overwhelming process of irresponsible and uncontrolled production, shooting this tragic destruction. It’s not about prohibiting the production. It’s not about stopping the planting and harvesting machines from fulfilling its job; unless in a responsible way. It’s about demanding the fulfillment of the legal reserve law, denouncing the indifference of constituents of 88 in relation to "Cerrado" and looking for reverting this way.
The photographies of Resistance don’t have a title nor description. They speak for themselves.
