One of the final stages in demarcating the Amazonian territory of the isolated Kawahiva tribe is set to take place this year, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples has announced. It’s taken nearly 23 years of work by Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, to mark off land for the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo territory in Mato […]
On the morning of May 24, 2017, police and military carried out an operation in the Santa Lúcia farm in Brazil’s northern Amazon state of Pará, killing 10 unarmed rural land users. Witnesses say the men and women were killed while trying to take shelter and hide in the rain. The police say they were […]
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 […]