Gethin Chamberlain The Observer, Sunday 22 April 2012 Article history Undercover investigators film Link to this video Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back – incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of [...]
Tags: Brazil, Colin Firth, European Economic Community, Fiona Watson, Fundação Nacional do Índio, Maranhão, Survival International, World Bank
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Photo by GALLO/GETTY According to workers at the Brazilian government-run national Indian foundation, FUNAI, late last week a group of men from a paramilitary faction from Peru, armed with rifles and machine guns, entered Brazilian territory and encircled a remote jungle guard post used by FUNAI researchers to study and protect isolated indigenous tribes near the [...]
Tags: Acre (state), Amazônia Legal, AmazonRainforest, Brazil, Fundação Nacional do Índio, Indigenous People, Peru, Uncontacted peoples
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