An indigenous leader in Brazil's Amazon says he will do what he can to stop loggers and prospectors encroaching on his people's land, amid devastating fires burning across the rainforest.
Krimej indigenous Chief Kadjyre Kayapo, of the Kayapo indigenous community, looks out at a path created by loggers on the border between the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, front, and Menkragnotire indigenous lands, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
The routine patrol came after a month in which fires swept many areas of the Amazon, causing an international outcry over the growing threat to a vast area that drains heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. “I founded this village to prevent the loggers getting into our territory,” said the leader, who wore a traditional headdressQ and a necklace reading “Jesus Christ” in Kayapo language.
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