The Battle Over Brazil’s Isolated Tribes Takes a New Turn
An Indigenous patrol has emerged in the Javari Valley to protect a forest and its people.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on China and Latin America VALE DO JAVARI INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, BRAZIL—The next round of the UN Climate negotiations will be held in November in the Amazon, where scientists have accumulated indisputable evidence that the rainforest is a critical stabilizer for the global climate. It stores carbon, produces rainfall, and its unparalleled biodiversity is still yielding new discoveries. All the while, climatologists warn that deforestation and planetary warming are pushing the Amazon toward a tipping point of irreversible collapse. As...
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