The Female Activist of the Tembe Tribe (Excerpt from ’Fighting the Amazon’s Illegal Loggers’)

On the Alto Rio Guama reserve in Brazil, the Tembe tribe has been battling for 40 years to save their land from illegal loggers and settlers. The lucrative timber industry has devastated vast areas of the rainforest and indigenous communities are often the victims, while deforestation around the world has been linked directly to climate change. As the illegal logging on the reserve threatens to spiral out of control, the Tembe have been forced to take up arms and confront the loggers, sparking violent clas