Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil
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For years, the Parakanã Indigenous people were restricted to less than a third of their territory, isolated in the middle of a vast pasture area occupied by around 100,000 heads of cattle. Illegal gold mining, illegal logging and land grabbing also proliferated inside their land, the Apyterewa Indigenous land, located in Brazil’s River Xingu basin, in Pará state. “It is historically the most deforested Indigenous territory in Brazil, and perhaps in the world,” said Wallace Lopes, an environment
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