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‘The forest is shedding tears’: the women defending their Amazon homeland
It is midnight at an almost deserted bus station and one of the Amazon’s most courageous warriors is sitting on a plastic chair and breastfeeding her child, apparently indifferent to the hefty price on her head.
Illegal miners have offered 100g of gold to anyone who kills Maria Leusa Munduruku, a forest defender, indigenous leader and women’s rights activist who has spearheaded campaigns to halt invasions of the Tapajós river basin by polluters, loggers and dam builders.
- Jonathon Watts
- The Guardian
After some of the men of her tribe – the Munduruku – were co-opted by gold prospectors, she formed a women’s association that now takes …