forest protection

Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon

Posted by paulo adario - 21 September 2011 at 5:40pm - 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.

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