Thursday, 12 March 2015

ISIS are not the only ones destroying important landscapes

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/mar/12/isis-are-not-the-only-ones-committing-great-acts-of-vandalism

An area of the Amazon rainforest which has been slashed and burned stands next to a section of virgin forest, as seen from a police helicopter during the ‘Hileia Patria’ operation against sawmills and loggers who trade in illegally extracted wood from the Alto Guama River indigenous reserve in Nova Esperanca do Piria, in Para State, 29 September 2013. T

A Ka'apor Indian warrior stands near a burning logging truck in the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka'apor Indians, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited.


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