That there is a strong pressure from the land grains and from the extraction of forest products behind the appearance of a young man from the “uncontabated people of Mamori Grandi”? Here, in the southern part of the Brazilian State of Amazonaswhere local communities collect Brazilian walnuts and other fruits of the forest, in recent days it would be One of the uncontained in a settlement appeared.
The indigenous then returned to the jungle the following day, but the experts see this episode as a clear sign of theintensify threats in the regioncaused by land acknowledgment and the indiscriminate exploitation of forest resources.
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Although the Brazilian Department for Indigenous Affairs (Funai) introduced a temporary territorial protection order last December, the area has not yet been officially demarcata e The local indigenous community has been reporting the presence of the group for decadesbut some political exponents are opposing the protection, putting the survival of the underwent people at risk.
The entire region is under siege: illegal hunting and fishing, together with the continuous invasions for the gravy of the lands, threaten the balance of the ecosystem and the life of the indigenous people.
Zé Bajaga Apurinã, Coordinator of the Focimp (Federação das Organizações and Communidades Indígenas do Médio Purus), denounces the urgency of a decisive intervention:
For years we have been asking for the actual protection of this territory. The temporary ordinance is not enough: the official demarcation is needed. These communities do not have another place to live. The invaders enter, plunder the resources, break down trees, hunt and fish relentlessly. They are suffocating, under constant threat. We must act immediately: delimit the territory and establish a health cordon.
To confirm the seriousness of the situation is the prosecutor General Daniel Luis Dalberto, an expert in rights of the uncontained peoples, who after an inspection said he personally saw the dangers that these peoples are facing:
The risk of genocide or total extermination is very high.
Even Carlos Travassos, former head of the unit for the uncontained peoples of Funai, underlines the urgency to legally protect the area, afflicted by speculation and invasions:
Some areas do not enjoy any legal protection and are victims of lands acapartor. The territorial protection order is fundamental, because this region represents the most advanced margin of the arc of deforestation ‘, the area of the Amazonia most affected by deforestation.
The Survival International organization, which has long been committed to denouncing the fragility of the situation, reiterates the need for quick and concrete actions.
This episode is an alarm bell that we cannot ignore. The protection of this territory and of all those inhabited by uncontained peoples must be an absolute priority. The government has used years to issue a temporary measure, but the presence of this community has been documented for decades. Now the acknowledgment is out of control. There is no more time to waste, concludes Caroline Pearce, general director of the organization.
