Brazil: Yanomami indigenous community risks becoming extinct
Channel: UN Human Rights
Date: 2022-08-09

Brazil's Yanomami community have lived in the Amazon forest for centuries.
But the indigenous community, of about 30,000,  risks losing their lands, culture and way of life. August 9th marks the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

Photos credit: Photos courtesy of ISA Barelos Amazon


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