One vice chief said of the Amazon fire: 'Our firemen are not being able to handle it…the trees where we pick Brazil nuts are gone.'
TENHARIM TERRITORY, Brazil — The vice-chief of the village of Pakyri knows that next year his people will face hard times, as the fires raging in the Amazon forest burn their food, medicine and livelihoods.
That sparked international calls for the country to do more to protect the world’s largest tropical rainforest from deforestation and other threats. Families living in the dozen vilages in the Tenharim reserve have little means of road transport to urban centers, beyond the buses that pass once a day on the nearest highway.
The controlled fires created cleared areas around a few key pieces of forest, home to animals and forest foods crucial to the tribe, they said.
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