"A tribe of 300 Amazon nomads is fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed. Around sixty members of the tribe have no contact with outsiders.
Survival International has launched an urgent campaign for the protection of the Awá, who are one of the last truly nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil.
Loggers, ranchers and settlers are invading the Awá’s land, hunting the animals they rely on and exposing them to disease and violence. One group of loggers is only three kilometers from an Awá community.
In the 1970s, the EU and the World Bank funded a huge iron ore mine and railway in the region, bringing an influx of settlers. More than two thirds of the Awá contacted by the government in this period died.
Many Awá today are survivors of brutal massacres. One man, Karapiru, wandered the forest alone for ten years after his family were killed, believing that he was the only Awá left. He was reunited with other Awá in 1988."
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Survival International
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