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RSS FeedsAmazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight
(World News Brazil)

 
 

18 september 2019 16:45:48

 
Amazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight
(World News Brazil)
 


Alto Rio Guama Indigenous Reserve, Brazil - Deep in the Amazon rainforest, there is talk of a looming conflict over land. The men in the Tembe indigenous group sometimes daub themselves in traditional war paint and patrol the forest. They carry bows and arrows, but feel increasingly vulnerable as they brace for run-ins with illegal loggers. Tension over territory reached a new height after a surge in annual fires, usually set to clear land, devastated large areas of the Brazilīs Amazon region in past weeks. Some indigenous people who live in the Amazon say deforestation is encroaching on their lands and way of life. Indigenous Tembe warrior Ronilson Tembe poses for a portrait on the Alto Rio...


 
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