Blogposts tagged 'Deni'

Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon

Posted by paulo adario - 21 September 2011 at 4:40pm - 1 Comment

Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging with help from Greenpeace.

September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US that changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. At that time their land was sold illegally to a logging company without their knowledge.

Article tagged as: amazon, demarcation, deni, forest code, forest protection, forests, indigenous people, rainforests

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Greenpeace in the Amazon: helping the Deni Indians to protect their land from loggers

Posted by admin - 24 January 2005 at 8:00am - 2 Comments

Deni Indians demarcarting their territory

In July 2003, a Greenpeace team helped the indigenous Deni Indian communities in the Amazon to demarcate their homeland. The land was under threat from a Malaysian logging company.

Article tagged as: amazon, demarcation, deni, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber