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Brazil renews protection of little-seen Amazon tribe for six months

Brazil Piripkura tribe

Brasilia, BrazilReuters The only two known male members of the Piripkura tribe in Brazil live in isolation on ancestral lands the size of Luxembourg in the Amazon rainforest, resisting decades of invasion by loggers and cattle ranchers. Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency Funai renewed a protection order on Friday for the 242,500-hectare area in western Mato […]