Brazil’s Lula legalises more Indigenous reservations in Amazon
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday officially recognised two Indigenous territories, granting them legal protection as reservations to defend against invasions by illegal loggers, gold miners and cattle ranchers. The announcement came on the day Brazil celebrates its Amazon region, home to the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the preservation […]
Indigenous protest camp erected in Brazilian capital to press land rights
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Hundreds of Indigenous people began gathering in the Brazilian capital on Monday for a 10-day protest camp to defend their land rights and oppose a government bill in Congress that would allow mining and oil exploration on their reservations. Organisers are hoping to gather 7,000 people from 200 of Brazil’s 305 tribes to […]
As US states ease coronavirus lockdowns, remote towns stay shut
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Tucked up against the Canadian border in northwest Montana, the Blackfeet Reservation shut itself off in March as first word of the novel coronavirus spread, prohibiting visitors and implementing curfews. And while Montana, like half the US states, is gradually reopening businesses, the Blackfeet’s tribal council toughened their protective […]