Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders (5-8-20)

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford

5-8-2020

The policy, say analysts, seems destined to result in close contact and clashes between outsiders and indigenous people, and is especially a threat to isolated indigenous groups, many who currently live within un-demarcated ancestral lands. There is also a high risk of indigenous infection with COVID-19

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