from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 18:22
https://sh.itjust.works/post/39531010
Tataco grimaces and braces for impact as his canoe hurtles towards the banks of Brazil’s Jordan River into a blizzard of branches, vines and leaves. In the bow of the boat, his Indigenous comrade, Damë Matis, shields his face with his arms as he is swallowed by the vegetation, twigs gouging his muscular shoulders.
“We’ll get there,” Tataco says with his trademark bonhomie, despite the countless natural obstacles blocking the way. “It’s just going to take us a little while.”
The group’s destination is the south-eastern tip of Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory – the Javari valley – a colossal wilderness the size of Scotland, where the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira vanished three years ago this week, on 5 June 2022.
Since Pereira’s death, his collaborators have dramatically stepped up Evu’s (an Indigenous patrol group) activities, working tirelessly to train Indigenous activists to protect the Javari’s rainforests and rivers from illegal poachers, fishers, miners and drug traffickers.
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