Brazil: Indigenous activism for rainforest
By DW
27 December 2021 |
9:15 am
In Brazil, the Bolsonaro government has pushed for greater areas of rainforests to be exploited for profit. Now, young members of the Pataxo tribe in the state of Bahia are fighting back.
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