September 7, 2020
FEATURE-Brazil court decision sparks fears indigenous land could be handed to farmers
Author: Fabio Zuker
SAO PAULO, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Kaworé Parakana sees the smoke rising on the horizon, the indigenous leader knows that another part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is gone.
For more than three decades, the Parakana people have been fighting to protect their land in the Apyterewa reservation, in the northern state of Pará, from illegal miners, loggers and farmers who clear large swathes of trees.
"With each day that passes there is a huge amount of deforestation. They create l