Mooi tribe members tell of their fears that deforestation will destroy their livlihood and their children’s future.

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Open Letter to the Climate Action Network from Deforestation
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Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing mankind since the last ice
age. Naturally, many well meaning NGO’s have grouped together to promote action plans that can help mankind avert this impending disaster. One notable grouping is the Climate Action Network (CAN).
The CAN is [...]

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Logging ban protects Brazil tribe.
Logging ban protects Brazil tribe A Brazilian judge has reinstated an order banning loggers from land inhabited by a remote Amazonian tribe. The ruling covers a 166,000 hectare (410,000-acre) area of rainforest in the north-eastern Rio Pardo region. Campaigners had warned that the "uncontacted" group [...]

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Reuters AlertNet – Little known Indian tribe spotted in Brazil.
Little known Indian tribe spotted in Brazil 25 May 2005 17:18:41 GMT Source: Reuters By Terry Wade PORTO VELHO, Brazil, May 25 (Reuters) – A Brazilian Indian tribe armed with bows and arrows and unseen for years has been spotted in a remote Amazon region [...]

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Forest Dwellers Face Annihilation.
Campaigners in the Brazilian Amazon fear a group of as yet uncontacted indigenous peoples in a remote corner of the rainforest face "annihilation" after a court overturned state efforts to protect them from logging firms. The supreme court ruled that the company can continue logging in the densely forested area at the [...]

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How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?.

The short answer — no one really knows
Rhettt A. Butler, mongabay.com
May 14, 2005
 

Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long been aware that rainforest dwellers have an astounding knowledge of medicinal plants. Kaiapo shaman in the Amazon.

For thousands of years, indigenous [...]

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