Indigenous rights groups have warned they are rapidly running out of time to save one of the world’s most vulnerable Amazonian tribes before far-Right Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro is sworn into office on 1 January.
Human rights organisation Survival International is lobbying the Brazilian government to map out and protect the land of the uncontacted Kawahiva tribe.
The Kawahiva are hunter-gatherers based in the territory of Rio Pardo, in Brazil’s southern Amazonian region. The Brazilian indigenous affairs agency, FUNAI, estimates that there are over 100 such isolated tribes across the country.
Survival also demands increased policing in and around the tribal territory, to avoid what…
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