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Peruvian loggers who are illegally stripping the Amazon of timber are a threat to an isolated tribe living in a Brazilian part of the rainforest near the border with Peru.
Brazil’s government is pressuring Peru to prevent the loggers, but so far nothing significant has been done to stop their advancement into the uncontacted indigenous tribe’s territory.
Brazilian Indian leader Davi Kopenawa Yanomami:
The place where the Indians live, fish, hunt and plant must be protected. That is why it is useful to show pictures of the uncontacted Indians for the whole world to know that they are there in their forest and that the authorities must respect their right to live there.
Contact between isolated tribes and loggers has a long and dark history, commonly resulting in violence, death, disease and even extinction of indigenous peoples.
The activist group Survival International has obtained photos of the tribe from the Brazilian government and is using them to draw attention to the tribe’s plight. To view the photos and find out more on the story, visit Survival International’s Uncontacted Tribes website.
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