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The survival of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon is now at risk as some of their last forest refuges are being consumed by flames, says Survival International.

Protests against the anti-indigenous policies of Brazil’s President Bolsonaro marked his first month in power.

Landmark talks between the Paraguayan government and a recently contacted tribe have yet to reach an agreement, allowing rampant deforestation to continue. Some members of the tribe are uncontacted, and live in a rapidly shrinking island of forest.

Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights, reveals that a rancher targeting the land of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon is a former state deputy labelled “the most corrupt politician in Brazil.”