Brazilian municipality Guajara-Mirim has passed a law that designates the Komi Memem River personhood, a groundbreaking measure that was proposed by an Indigenous councilman.
GUAJARA-MIRIM, BRAZIL On the banks of the Komi Memem River, the activity never ceases: women go down the embankment from Laje Velho village carrying basins
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GUAJARA-MIRIM, BRAZIL (AP) — On the banks of the Komi Memem River, the activity never ceases: women go down the embankment from Laje Velho village carrying basins to wash clothing, while men embark in small canoes on hunting and fishing expeditions. The river, named Laje in non-Indigenous maps, is vital to the Oro Waram, one of the six subgroups of the Wari’ people, who have inhabited the Western Amazon for centuries. The relentless expansion of soybeans and pastures encroaches on their land, while land-robbers promote illegal deforestation.