In Brazil, an indigenous leader inspired an Amazon city to pass a law granting personhood status to an endangered river.
in Brazil to discuss ways to preserve the Amazon rainforest to help stave off climate change and protect its Indigenous peoples.
In Brazil, an Indigenous leader recently inspired an Amazon city to pass a law granting personhood status to an endangered river. The Wari’ people lived independently until the late 1950s and early 1960s and are the largest group of Chapakuran speakers, an isolated language family. In the initial years after contact with outsiders, three out of five Wari’ died from introduced diseases, dwindling to as low as 400 people.
, signed a law in 2021 reducing the park’s boundaries to legalize the land-grabbing. A judicial order subsequently overruled that law, but the invasion and deforestation have not stopped. Sometimes the threat is very direct. On June 6, about 60 armed men invaded Linha 26 village, expelling its inhabitants. They only returned after the Federal Police went to the locale and retook it, according to the Wari’ umbrella organization.
An Indigenous Wari’ girl holds a little bird in Guajara-Mirim, Rondonia state, Brazil, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Wari' Indigenous women prepare a typical spice named Urucum in Guajara-Mirim, Rondonia state, Brazil, Friday, July 14, 2023.
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