hello there...
i just came back from a 3 month trip through brazil... i ended up in the amazon rainforest and had amazing experiences over there, i learned a lot about preconceptions we all have about it. at first i only thought about the nature i would see there, and didn´t think about the people living there. the contact i had with them was one of the most rewarding things about the whole trip. i thought places like that should have no human presence to be preserved but the riverside communities are not the problem there, the biggest problems are wood extraction and soy planting. multinational corporation cargill has a great soy silo in one of the cities i went to and it incentivates farmers in the region to plant and produce soy, which is planted on illegal land that is deforested and used for about 3 years. after that the land is abandoned because it is not fertile anymore, leading to desertification. the soy produced in the amazon goes straight to europe in big ships, and the soy is used solely for animal feeding, which means the european meat market is responsible for a lot of amazon's deforestation.
i also went to a brazilian national park called "chapada diamantina" which is the most beautiful place i´ve ever been. i´ll post some pictures from the trip on my other deviantart account ~look-around.



i also want to thank the *painters club here on deviantart for awarding me the 1st place on their diptych contest. you can see the info about the contest here: [link]
this is the painting that i sent to the contest:


cheers!