Friday, September 15, 2017

Uncontacted And Isolated Amazon Tribes; No Money To Protect Them Or Their Rainforest

      A group of Indians that included women and children were massacred by gold miners in the Amazon. Why are isolated and uncontacted tribes not protected. Why is the Amazon not protected? Where is everyone that screams how important it is to protect rainforest? Where are the multibillion dollar conservation and wildlife organizations? Why is the Brazilian government, which swears in its constitution to protect indigenous tribes, letting tribal people be massacred?
      The Brazilian agency that is supposed to protect indigenous people, FUNAI, had its budget cut severely. There is no one protecting isolated and uncontacted tribes; the people that are the most vulnerable.
       And so miners, loggers, ranchers, agricultural interests, encroach onto their lands, destroying the forest and the people themselves. They bring disease, and by cutting the forests, reduce tribes people to poverty stricken beggars that no longer have a way to support themselves. Or they outright murder tribespeople.
       The FUNAI budget for uncontacted tribes was reduced from approx 7.5 million reais in 2014 to approximately two million reais, or about 650,000 dollars.
        650,000 dollars to any big monied conservation, wildlife, or animal welfare, humane type organization is chump change that does not even cover the expenses of their well heeled and traveled, pampered executives.
     
       

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