Indigenous communities in the Amazon fight for full recognition

Mongabay
Oct 9, 2024, 6:59 am1k ptsInteresting
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Amazonian lowlands were home to several hundred ethnic groups living in tens of thousands of villages with a population estimated at between four and fifteen million inhabitants. Over millennia, these societies transformed landscapes along the main stem of the Amazon River…

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