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Uncontacted tribe’s forest sprayed with chemical defoliant July 24, 2011

Filed under: environmental issues,global justice,human rights — Monkey @ 9:00 pm

A large stretch of Amazon forest in a region where uncontacted Indians are thought to be living, has reportedly been destroyed illegally with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane.

Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, discovered a 178 hectare patch of dead trees during a recent overflight of an area of the western Brazilian Amazon.

You can read more here.

 

2 Responses to “Uncontacted tribe’s forest sprayed with chemical defoliant”

  1. Completely terrible.

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