The lands of the uncontacted Piripkura tribe are constantly being invaded and destroyed to make way for beef production
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThere is no peace for the uncontacted peoples of Brazil. Their desire has always been to remain isolated and live their existence in close contact with nature, sheltered from globalization. But more and more often this right is repeatedly denied him. Among the uncontacted tribes who are living the nightmare of the invasion of their lands we find the Piripkura, whose territory has the rate of highest deforestation in all of Brazil, as shown in the recent photo aeree allegate in the dossier carried out by COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon) and OPI (Observatory of the Human Rights of Isolated and Recent Contact Indigenous Peoples).
Their territories are constantly invaded and destroyed to make room for the production of beef: the trees are cut down to exploit the wood and the different areas are transformed into pastures for cattle. A natural heritage destroyed in the name of intensive farming. As reported in a report published by OPI, they have already been devastated over 12.000 hectares.
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The photos immortalized in flight reveal the presence of vast herds of cattle in the heart of the territories where the Piripkura live.
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Not just deforestation, but also massacres
All this happens illegally, in violation of the territorial protection ordinance issued in September which banishes all outsiders from Piripkura territory for six months. It is not uncommon for members of the tribe to pay with their lives. Many Piripkura, in fact, have been killed in past massacres.
Recently Rita Piripkura, the only Piripkura contacted, told Survival International that outsiders operating illegally within her people's territory could soon kill her relatives and reported that nine people have already been massacred during an attack by timber traffickers.
There could be no more glaring demonstration of the total impunity - indeed, active support - that invaders enjoy under Bolsonaro's presidency - commented Sarah Shenker, Survival's campaign manager for uncontacted peoples - We are talking about commercial farming operations in a indigenous territory of vital importance that should be protected by law. The invaders are fast approaching the uncontacted Piripkura, but they resist with all their might, and that's what we must do too. Only a great mobilization of public opinion can prevent the genocide of the Piripkura and other uncontacted peoples. And you know what? It is also a much cheaper and more effective way to protect the Amazon rainforest than the lethal 'solutions' promoted by governments at COP26.
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As also happened in other areas of the Amazon populated by indigenous communities, in the territory where the Piripkura people live, invasions and deforestation activities have intensified since 2019, the year of the election of President Jair Bolsonaro.
And in 2021 it was reached higher annual rate of deforestation over the past 15 years, after a 22% increase over the previous year. A tragedy not only for about one million indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest, but also for the planet that is losing its green lung at a frightening rate.
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Fonte: Survival International
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