She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the h...
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil - She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the heart of the Amazon, but her plea has been heard at the United Nations and the Vatican.
“People of the world, come and help us protect nature and fight the projects of a government that wants to destroy the forest,” Beka told Reuters at a meeting of indigenous leaders in the Xingu reservation. They fear the worst. Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro plans to open up protected reservation lands to commercial mining and agriculture, and is considering building hydro dams on the Tapajos, the last major tributary of the Amazon that is free flowing.
Bolsonaro has said his government is protecting the rainforest, but he wants economic development in the Amazon to improve the lives of its 30 million inhabitants, including its tribes. Environmentalists fear that will hasten deforestation.
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