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Reuters photographer Lunae Parracho recently went
on a search and destroy mission in the Amazon with Brazil's Ka'apor
Indians. Frustrated by the government's lack of action to keep illegal
loggers out of the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, local warriors from
several tribes have taken it upon themselves to find logging camps,
destroy equipment, and drive out the unwelcome intruders. Parracho
documented the scene as Ka'apor warriors captured a number of men in the
forest, burned their trucks, destroyed their logs, then sent their
captives down the road—freed, but without shoes or pants, their hands
still bound. The Ka'apor Indians and four other tribes—the legal
inhabitants and caretakers of the territory—have also set up monitoring
camps in areas that are being illegally exploited. [20 photos]
A Ka'apor Indian warrior chases a logger who tried to escape after he
was captured during a jungle expedition to find and expel loggers from
the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme
municipality in the northeast of Brazil's Maranhao state in the Amazon
basin, on August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient
government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka'apor
Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and
caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all
loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are
being illegally exploited.(Reuters/Lunae Parracho) 
was captured during a jungle expedition to find and expel loggers from
the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme
municipality in the northeast of Brazil's Maranhao state in the Amazon
basin, on August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient
government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka'apor
Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and
caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all
loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are
being illegally exploited.
Ka'apor Indian warriors gesture to members of their tribe as they
depart on a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the
Alto Turiacu Indian territory, in the village of Waxiguy Renda near the
Centro do Guilherme municipality in the Amazon basin, on August 7, 2014.
(Reuters/Lunae Parracho) #
depart on a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the
Alto Turiacu Indian territory, in the village of Waxiguy Renda near the
Centro do Guilherme municipality in the Amazon basin, on August 7, 2014.
via In Focus - The Atlantic
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