By Philip M. Fearnside One day after the end of the COP28 climate summit, Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) conducted what is known as the “End-of-the-World” auction, selling off drilling rights in 602 new exploration areas, including 21 in the Amazon River basin. More than half (12 blocks) are located in areas that directly impact up to 20 Indigenous lands and the buffer zones of at least 15 conservation units (protected areas for biodiversity. Also included are blocks affecting demarcated quilombola territories, which are areas inhabited by the descendants of Africans who escaped from…