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Ongoing atrocities on Brazil’s indigenous peoples are a profound menace to their existence, livelihood and wellbeing

Ongoing atrocities on Brazil’s indigenous peoples are a profound menace to their existence, livelihood and wellbeing

Damini Ralleigh

Indigenous peoples are the most efficient preservers of the world’s biodiversity and this is particularly true for Brazil’s indigenous reserves that hold the most pristine parts of the rainforest in the world. Nearly one-fifth of all Amazonian animals and plants live in these territories — which retain 25.5% of all carbon stocks in Brazil — …