RIPÁ, Brazil One muggy morning last December, eight women and their chief drove out of the Indigenous Xavante village of Ripá across a forested savanna in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. After a few miles, the road petered out. They walked on in single file through the knee-high grass. They got little shade […]
An Indigenous Village Works To Save a Brazilian Forest, Seed by Seed. RIPÁ, Brazil The men and women started off with their chief by truck, riding several miles until the road from their small village became too soft for the vehicle’s bald tires. They then kept going.