I believe very little will happen," he said from Manaus. "Brazil has a government that has not shown any sensitivity toward the environment and much less on indigenous issues. It also asks for more careful monitoring of religious missionaries to prevent the loss of indigenous culture through their evangelizing work.īeto Marubo, a representative of the indigenous people of the Javari Valley and a former FUNAI official, said the study reinforces the need to create a buffer to stop the advance of "illegal miners, loggers, hunters and Christian missionaries." The 300-page study, supported by the Rainforest Foundation Norway, urges the governments to drop the planned road. "The study shows the need to understand the corridor as one space continuously inhabited by people in isolation, where government decisions or pressures can have large-scale effects regardless of which side of the border they inhabit," she said.Īn emerging threat is the building of a road from Cruzeiro do Sul in Brazil to Pucallpa in Peru, pushed by the Brazilian government as a route for exporting soybeans to China from Peru's Pacific coast.
They suffer racism, land theft, forced development and genocidal violence just because they live differently.
Peru has more recently established indigenous protection of isolated tribes, but it has taken up to 18 years to create some reservation areas, Huertas said. From the Amazon to the Kalahari, from the jungles of India to the Congo rainforest, we work in partnership with tribal peoples to protect their lives and land. Brazil has long protected the Javari Valley indigenous area, but the current government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has weakened the indigenous affairs agency Funai that has pulled back experts on uncontacted indigenous people, she said.īolsonaro's drive to develop the Amazon region has encouraged illegal logging and gold mining in the world's largest tropical rainforest, spurring deforestation in what experts consider a major bulwark against climate change.
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