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Brazil's Indigenous activists fight for rainforest

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December 4, 2021

In Brazil, the Bolsonaro government has pushed for greater areas of rainforests to be exploited for profit. Now, young members of the Pataxo tribe in the state of Bahia are fighting back.

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