As the world’s population takes shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic, an historic assault is being waged on the Amazon rainforest—and the indigenous people who have called it home for thousands of years.
The indigenous people of the Brazilian Guajajara tribe are taking it upon themselves, risking life and limb, to track and apprehend illegal loggers in their ancestral land.An historic assault is being waged on the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who have called it home for thousands of years as the world’s population takes shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Smoke billows from a felled tree in the surroundings of Porto Velho, Rondonia State, in the Amazon basin in west-central Brazil, Aug. 24, 2019. Brazil’s indigenous tribe’s have already been under increased pressure since Bolsonaro took office in 2019. He immediately began slashing funding and enforcement at FUNAI, the country’s department of indigenous affairs that provides essential services to indigenous communities across the nation. In July 2019, he appointed a federal police officer with connections to agribusiness to head the agency.
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