“We have decided to take on the loggers because nobody else is helping us. We are doing what the authorities should be doing.”
The Ka'apor Indians in Brazil's Amazon have taken matters into their
own hands and formed an 'army' to take on the illegal loggers who are
destroying their rainforest home.
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Ka'apor Indians have formed an indigenous 'army' to combat illegal logging in their forest
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Ka’apor Indians in the Amazon rainforest have formed an indigenous
“army” to combat illegal invasions of their land, following the
government’s failure to protect their territory.
The Ka’apor men track down and detain gangs of illegal loggers, set fire to their trucks, and confiscate their chainsaws.
Images of their latest expedition
show the Ka’apor, armed with bows and arrows and wooden batons,
detaining one group of loggers in their territory in the north-eastern
Brazilian Amazon.
One Ka’apor spokesman said, “We have decided to take on the loggers
because nobody else is helping us. We are doing what the authorities
should be doing.”
