BRAZIL – Indigenous tribes and rubber tappers joined forces on Wednesday to oppose steps by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that they said were destroying the Amazon forest they depend on.
Around 450 members of 47 tribes met for a second day to discuss how to resist Bolsonaro’s moves to weaken public agencies which are meant to protect the environment and native land rights.
Bolsonaro said tribes have too much land and he wants to open up the reservations to commercial mining and agriculture to develop the Amazon and lift indigenous people from poverty.(Reuters)
