When Brazil’s rightwing government removed Bruno Pereira as head of the isolated Indigenous people’s division of the state agency Funai in 2019, he decided to help the traditional people help themselves.
The tribes in the Javari valley along Brazil’s western border with Peru are under threat from the loggers, ranchers, prospectors and drug traffickers increasingly active in the Amazon. Pereira got them GPS systems, drones and other modern equipment to help them delineate their land and set up fences and surveillance apparatus.
