Tag: Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
While the Amazon burns, Brazil’s indigenous peoples rise up
A record outbreak of fires is incinerating the Amazon, the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, which is home to at least one in...
Brazil’s indigenous peoples have long united against deforestation
When rain started to fall on the flames overtaking the area around the small Amazonian town of Lábrea, Brazil, Marcos Apurinã let...