Glossary

aldeia

a village, often referring to Indigenous villages in Brazil

autodefensas

right-wing paramilitary groups

bandidagem

criminal actions

bandido

a criminal

caciques

Indigenous leaders

Cadastro Ambiental Rural

Rural Environmental Registry

cartórios

notary offices that register land deeds

castañero

Brazil nut collectors

chagra

a forest garden for food, feed, medicinal, and other purposes

colocação

land lots of ex-rubber tappers

companheiros

activist fellows and companions, friends, sharing the cause, in Brazil

compra

some purchased goods or food

dono

de facto owner/controller of the area

erätarkastaja

warden

fazendeiro

large farmer

fiscais

inspectors, environmental police officers

fronteira

frontier

garimpeiros

small-scale gold miners, typically mining illegally in small to medium-scale mechanized mines

garimpos

illegal gold-mining sites

grande latifundio

large landholders

grandes

“big men”

grilagem

falsification of documents

grileiros

professional land grabbers specializing in the violence needed to dispossess people and retain the lands obtained through land title frauds.

harsintahakkuu

selection felling

jokaisenoikeudet

“everyone’s rights” in Finland, which refers to the freedom to roam the whole country, to collect mushrooms and berries, irrespective of who owns the forest.

lähteä lapasesta

a traditional Finnish phrase “Left from a mitten,” meaning something that is getting out of control.

latifundiários

landholders

latifundios

landholders

Luonnonmetsätyöryhmä

a natural forest work group

Luontoliitto

Finnish Nature Association

madereiro

logger

mãe Terra

Mother Earth

mandantes

those ordering the killings

Meidän metsämme

a forest movement in Finland called “Our Forests”

Metsähallitus

the forest government

Metsälehti

The Forest Magazine

Metsäliike

Forest Movement

Metsänhoitoyhdistys

a regional forest stewardship association

muito chucras

super rude

narcogarimpeiros

those carrying out the criminal activities in the interlinked gold-mining and drug networks

narcogarimpo

the linking of organized drug traffickers and criminal networks with gold-mining activities

Osaran aukot

the Clearcuts of Osara

pajé

shaman

pariuás

white people, outsiders, as referred to by them

peão de gado

ranch manager

polacos brancos

white Polish people

posse

usage rights

posseiros

squatters

prostibares

localities known for mafia-run prostitution of minors and Indigenous women from distant lands

raiskata

to rape, comes from an older Finnish word “raiskio,” which means “clearcut”

raiskio

ravaged forests, older Finnish word for “clearcut”

ramal

unpaved access roads

Suomen puunjalostusteollisuuden keskusliitto

Finnish Confederation of Wood Processing Industries

terras devolutas

nondesignated public lands