With authorities ineffective,the 2200-strong Kaapor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, and are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct actionWith bows,arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, or an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to attain: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.
The Ka’apor – a tribe of about 2200 people in Maranho state – possess organised a militia of “forest guardians” who follow a strategy of nature conservation through aggressive confrontation.
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Source: theguardian.com