Indigenous communities have experienced water contamination from nearby oil extraction since 2014, affecting the communities’ health and wildlife corridors, says Mera Paz.
Brazil is second in the world for total highest COVID-19 cases and death rate, following the U.S. But it is Brazil’s Indigenous communities who have been hit especially hard, highlighting the ongoing political, social and geopolitical conflict.
Activists have deplored the recent jailing of two indigenous community members in Sumatra in a land conflict involving an affiliate of pulp and paper giant Royal Golden Eagle.
