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“One of the most important days of my life,” are the words that anthropologist Beatriz Matos uses to describe her February visit to the Javari Valley on her first project as head of the Department of Territorial Protection and of Isolated and Recently Contacted Peoples inside the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.. Just eight months after […]
Illegal mining, logging, fishing, and drug trafficking have plagued the Indigenous people of the Javari Valley for years, and the region gained worldwide attention last June after Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were murdered while reporting in the territory.