RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Two members of the Brazilian indigenous group known for its forest guardians who combat illegal deforestation have been killed according to the Indigenist Missionary .
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Two members of the Brazilian Indigenous group known for its forest guardians who combat illegal deforestation have been killed according to the Indigenist Missionary Council, a nonprofit that monitors violence against native peoples.
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Three years ago, Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in an alleged ambush by loggers in the Brazilian Amazon. He was a member of the “Guardians of the Forest,” a group of 120 Indigenous Guajajara fighting against illegal logging in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in northeastern Maranhão state, often at great personal risk. Despite […]