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The Sateré-Mawé Retake Ancestral Land Threatened by Loggers and Land Thieves (Portuguese)

Image by Bernardino Miquiles. Brazil, 2019.

Image by Bernardino Miquiles. Brazil, 2019.

In a region historically occupied by the Sateré-Mawé people, the Indians are demanding that the National Indigenous Agency (Funai) correct the boundaries of the Indigenous Andirá-Marau land. A Mongabay reporting team, supported by the Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Pulitzer Center, accompanied their trip to regions which will become future villages.

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