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The Awá depend on their forest for their survival. PHOTO/© Survival
Over 60% of the illegal invaders on the land of the Awá tribe have now been evicted in a breakthrough operation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Operation Awá was launched in January 2014 to save earth’s most threatened tribe, after Survival’s 2-year global campaign forced the Brazilian government to act.
Hundreds of soldiers, police and government agents form the operation’s ground squad.
Government reports reveal that hundreds of loggers and illegal cattle ranchers have been removed from the indigenous territory in recent weeks. They had been given forty days to leave, or face forced removal.
The Awá, one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples in the Amazon, depend on their forest for their survival, but it was being destroyed at an alarming pace and 34% of their central territory has been deforested.
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