Why Tribal Peoples Are the Best Conservationists
Friday, 19 June 2015 00:00By Staff, Survival | Report – Truthout
Photo: Awá man making arrows, Brazil. The Awá have an intimate knowledge of their rainforest and are extremely skilled hunters. (Photo: Survival International)
Awá Indians in Brazil’s north-eastern Amazon rainforest know at least 275 useful plants, and at least 31 species of honey-producing bee. Each bee type is associated with another rainforest animal like the tortoise or the tapir.
In the 1980s, the Great Carajás Project opened up Awá lands to illegal loggers and ranchers. More than 30% of one of their territories has since been destroyed. [ Read more]
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Tribal people evolved, became us, overpopulated the earth. No solution here. Sorry.
These indigenous people do exist in South America and else where on this planet, and they will survive any crisis where the so-called civilized money & gadgets craving and materialistic citizens of the much touted developed societies will destroy themselves through ignorance and stupidity. And yes, we are the ones who chose not to live in harmony with nature while destroying everything in our path and then deny that we had nothing to do with it.. Educated idiots!
I heartily agree with you Kiskadee70