Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed – report
It is illegal to mine these areas of the rainforest but the government wants to change the law. …
Alessandra Munduruku from the indigenous group Munduruku is an activist defending indigenous lands. “What is at stake in this mining project is death: death of the rivers, death of the forest, death of the people, death of culture, death of language,” she told BBC News.