Update: Some Good News for World’s Most Threatened Tribe

This video presents “Loggers strip trees from Amazonian tribe’s territory – the Guardian”:

• “Undercover investigators film loggers taking huge tree trunks out of the territory of the Awá tribe.

• According to Survival International, they are the world’s most threatened tribe, with their homes being destroyed by industrial projects and cattle ranching.”

• The Awá
  • live in four communities in Maranhão state of Brazil
  • are fully dependent on the forest

This is an update to my previous blogs:

• Please Help Save Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe: Uncontacted Awá in Brazil

• Survival International Alert: Awá Tribe Will Face Extinction Due to Intensive Logging

Here are some good news for Brazil’s Awá Tribe:

• “A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company, Vale, to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track  (Carajás railway),
  • This railway track would have put the livelihoods of the world’s most threatened tribe in jeopardy:
    • The forest home of Brazil’s Awá tribe lies next to the existing railway, along which 2 km-long trains run to the world’s largest iron ore mine.”

• The ruling:
  • demands an immediate freeze on expansion work along the Carajás railway
  • sets a daily penalty of US$25,000 for any breach

•  Regarding Survival International’s major campaign to save world’s most threatened tribe, whose land is being destroyed by illegal loggers, ranchers and settlers:
  • So far, more than 30,000 people (300 people per day) have written to Brazil’s Justice Minister calling for him to do more to protect the tribe, who number just 460.
  • Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI has agreed to make the Awá its top priority
  • MPs in the UK have raised the issue

However, “loggers, ranchers and settlers are still brazenly flouting Brazilian law. Despite assurances from Brazil’s authorities, the Awá’s way of life still hangs in the balance – we need action,” said Survival’s Director Stephen Corry.