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An indigenous brazilian activist who campaigned to protect the rainforest has been shot dead in what appears to have been a targeted killing. Paulo gua ja jara had recently told journalists that he was scared about the situation in his reserve, where illegal loggers and miners were operating. Indigenous groups have accused brazils far right government of failing to protect them. Bill hayton reports. This was the kind of direct action paulo gua ja jara was involved in, catching illegal loggers red handed. A group intercepted a track loaded with tree trunks and the tools of this illegal trade. With the nearest Police Station hundreds of kilometres away, members of paulo gua ja jaras tribe feel this is the only way to protect their land from destruction. The guardians of the forest as they call themselves say that there home made weapons of cut illegal logging by half over the past decade. In an interview six weeks ago paulo gua ja j ....

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