“Over the past six months, Bolsonaro and his environment minister have been devoting themselves to the dismantling of the Brazilian environmental governance and neutralizing regulatory bodies”, Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the environment NGO network Observatorio do Clima (Climate Observatory) told CNN. While some members of the tribe have moved out of the forest, others still live in isolated groups in the remaining islands of untouched territory, according to Survival International.Įxperts say loggers, farmers and miners have been emboldened by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s pro-business stance on the Amazon, taking advantage of reduced controls and less oversight to seize control of a growing area of land in the forest. The Awá are some of the most threatened uncontacted Indians in the world, according to a press release from NGO Survival International, a nongovernmental organization that works to protect tribal peoples. “We’re using these images as a cry for help and we’re calling for the government to protect the lives of our relatives who don’t want contact with outsiders.” “We didn’t have the Awá’s permission to film, but we know that it’s important to use these images because if we don’t show them around the world, the Awá will be killed by loggers,” said Guajajara. Logging camps have been seen near uncontacted Awá people, and Erisvan Guajajara of Mídia Índia believes the footage could help to save the tribe from attacks. It was released by Midia India, a collective of indigenous filmmakers, as part of efforts to protect the forest from economic interests. The footage was filmed in Maranhao state, eastern Brazil, by a neighboring tribe called the Guajajara, who work to protect the rainforest where the Awá live.
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