Guardians of the Amazon: Indigenous Warriors Defend Their Land
In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous communities take a stand against illegal activities like fishing, poaching, logging, and drug trafficking
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In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous communities take a stand against illegal activities like fishing, poaching, logging, and drug trafficking
Yet a lawmaker has put forward a bill proposing to modify that law, a move anthropologists, Indigenous activists and leaders say would threaten legal safeguards for the PIACI and could lead to existing reserves for them being revoked. The proposal, made in November by congressman Jorge Morante of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, aims to modify the 2006 law to transfer responsibility for protecting isolated people and authority to create reserves from Peru's culture ministry to regional governments in the Amazon.
Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize
Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded...