Amazon Tribal people Are Massacred. Conservation Organizations, Brazilian Government, Keeps Them Unprotected

      Approximately ten members of a remote Amazon tribe are reported to have come into contact with a group of gold miners, who then massacred the group, which including women and children. It is believed that up to a fifth of the tribe may have been wiped out. News reports relate that the Indians were gathering eggs along a river when they came into contact with the miners. It is alleged that the miners may have cut up the bodies of the murdered victims and thrown them in the river in order that no evidence can be found.
       Uncontacted and isolated tribes are supposed to be protected. The Brazilian agency for Indigenous Affairs, Funai, reports that another massacre in the region that took place in February is still being investigated. Funding for Funai has been slashed. Funai had nineteen bases that were used to monitor and protect isolated tribes. Due to lack of funding by the government, five of the 19 bases were closed, and staff and funding for the other bases were significantly reduced. Three of the bases closed are in Javari Valley, where "approximately 20 out of 103 uncontacted tribes registered in Brazil" are believed to live, and which is the area where the recent massacre took place.
        These massacres are under investigation. These are difficult investigations not only because of the size of the areas involved and the difficulty in accessing them, but also because of the limited resources provided to pursue such investigations.
         Protecting tribal people is written into Brazil's constitution. Tribal advocacy groups assert the Brazilian government has failed to protect tribal people and their lands.
         Powerful mining, logging, ranching and agricultural interests covet the amazon. They have in their pockets a deeply corrupt president, Temer, who has no regards for the interests of Amazonian tribes.
          Powerful and deep pocketed conservation organizations are active in the Amazon. Selling the public on the idea that they are protecting the Amazon and its wildlife is a huge source of money for these organizations.
          So why are these tribes and their lands not properly protected? At the very least, why have none of these organizations, with the billions of dollars they collectively have, not stepped up to ensure no Funai base is closed, and that all Funai bases are properly manned?
           Protecting tribal peoples and their lands should be in the interest of every conservation organization. These tribes have existed in the Amazon for thousands of years. Unlike the miners and others that could care less about the rainforest and do not mind destroying it to pursue their commercial interests, tribal people are not destroying the very lands and forests on which they depend. They are not the ones de-foresting, mining and destroying the Amazon.
           Protecting isolated and uncontacted tribes and their lands are the surest way to protect the Amazon. Where are the deep pocketed conservation organizations while the forests of isolated and uncontacted tribes are destroyed and tribal people are massacred?