Brutal farmers make Indian land grab
The peoples of Raposa-Serra do Sol are under attack from violent farmers. Vicious attacks have shaken their communities as the state government refuses to uphold the law.
The Yanomami are one of the most numerous, and best-known, forest-dwelling tribes in South America. Their home is in the Amazon rainforest, among the hills that line the border between Brazil and Venezuela.
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest in Peru live tribes who have no contact with the outside world. Oil workers and illegal loggers are invading their land and bringing disease. They won't survive unless this stops.
Vedanta, a British mining company, is intent on open-cast mining for aluminium ore on Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh worship as a living god. Mining the mountain will destroy the forests on which they depend.
