The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
During the 2018 campaign, Bolsonaro had struck a chord with voters by criticising the way the indigenous reserves had stifled the state’s economic development, labelling the policy “separatist” and “dooming Roraima to economic failure”.3 Two indigenous reserves in particular – those established for the Yanomami to the north-west, where Ramalho’s ga
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“Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and big-leaf maples surround the house so tightly they take away the horizon. Some-times, when their crowns sway in the wind, I have the sense that I'm living at the bottom of a kelp forest. The expanse of this montane forest, like the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, is something I feel, and against this volume of spa
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