Brazil: Indigenous Voices And The Climate Change Debate

Brazil: Indigenous Voices And The Climate Change Debate   Davi Kopenawa, leader of the Yanomami one of Brazil's biggest indigenous groups says the Amazon is being destroyed and indigenous people must have a voice in negotiations on climate change.   Brazil contains 30 per cent of the worlds tropical rainforest and one-fifth of all freshwater resources. Indigenous people are key to protecting them.   Meanwhile forests are being destroyed to make way for cattle pastures, and to grow sugarcane...

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