Photo Gallery A Rain Forest in Danger
With the rainforests and protected indigenous territories under threat, Adriano Karipuna, the chief of the Karipuna tribe, has reached out to the United Nations and the international community for help. "We're afraid that we could lose everything now," says Karipuna.
An aerial shot of illegal gold mines in the Amazon forest. Concerns are growing that the new Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, will open up the Amazon for logging, mining and other forms of resource exploitation.
Jair Bolsonaro and first lady Michelle Bolsonaro during his inauguration as Brazil's president on January 1: Bolsonaro has accused his predecessors of "environmental activism."
Karipuna children sit inside a house located in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory. Only 40 years ago, the tribe lived with little contact to the outside world.
