Brazil Creates 20,000 Square Miles of New Indigenous Reserves

posted on December 24th, 2009 in Amazon Jungle, Brazil, Environment, Indigenous Rights

Indigenous Brazilian Tribe

December 23, 2009

On Monday, Brazil decreed nine new indigenous reserves covering 51,000 square kilometers (19,700 square miles) of the Amazon rainforest, an areas larger than Denmark or Switzerland, reports the AFP…

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