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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira's deaths show the Amazon's destruction
Journalist Dom Phillips was following Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira when both men disappeared along a remote river.
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The last member of an uncontacted tribe
He lived alone in the forest for twenty-six years before dying last month. What did he experience?
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After two murders, a Brazilian Indigenous leader steps up the fight
In an interview with e360, Beto Marubo, a leader of Brazil’s Indigenous Amazon people, discusses the recent murders of an activist and a journalist and excoriates President Jair Bolsonaro for opening Indigenous territories to a host of environmentally destructive activities.
abcnews.go.com
Deforestation of Amazon rainforest accelerates amid 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.
www.nytimes.com
As Bolsonaro keeps Amazon vows, Brazil's Indigenous fear 'ethnocide'
President Jair Bolsonaro is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, posing an existential threat to the tribes living there.
www.nationalgeographic.com
First coronavirus deaths reported in Indigenous communities in the Amazon
“COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the populations that live in Amazonia,” says president of prominent Brazilian rights group.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Defenders of threatened tribes warn of mounting hostility in the Amazon
Rights advocates anticipate calamity as Brazil moves to weaken the agency that has long worked to protect indigenous communities and their homelands.
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