Vale do Javari
Terra Indígena do Vale do Javari | |
|---|---|
| Nickname: Vale do Javari | |
  Terra Indígena do Vale do Javari Location in Brazil
= Vale do Javari | |
| Coordinates: 5°21′32″S 70°59′10″W / 5.35889°S 70.98611°W | |
State |  Amazonas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32,990.43 sq mi (85,444.82 km2) |
Vale do Javari (
Inhabitants
Vale do Javari is home to 3,000
The Brazilian government has made it illegal[when?] for non-indigenous people to enter the territory; the area (along with its inhabitants) is observed by the government from the air.[citation needed]
Illegal economic activities
The region is known for being a trafficking route for cocaine.
Rubber boom
During the Amazon rubber boom, natives along the Javari River were subjected to slave raids which were aimed at acquiring a work force to extract rubber.[7]
"During the time of the great rubber boom the Indians were often relentlessly hunted, either as labor material or as irreconcilable opponents of the invaders of their tribal lands. This occurred on a large scale in the valley of the Javery, in the Acre country, and in the Itenez basin in Bolivia..."
In the media
In October 2009, a plane with eleven people aboard emergency-landed in the middle of the reservation. People from the Matis tribe found the wreckage and alerted local authorities, who dispatched a rescue mission that flew nine survivors out of the reservation.[9]
Vale do Javari is the setting of the 2011 report The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by National Geographic writer Scott Wallace. It details a 76-day expedition in 2002 led by Sydney Possuelo to find the status of the "Arrow People", an uncontacted tribe.
In June 2022, British freelance journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on indigenous peoples of Amazonas, were murdered for helping to protect indigenous people from illegal drug traffickers, miners, loggers, and hunters.[10]
Notes
References
- ^ a b Phillips, Tom (22 June 2011). "Uncontacted tribe found deep in Amazon rainforest". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ Watson, Katy; Cruz, Jessica (2022-06-13). "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: 'A tragedy foretold'". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Anjos, Anna Beatriz (2022-06-09). "Vale do Javari teve multa recorde por pesca ilegal de pirarucu". Agência Pública (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Spring, Jake; Boadle, Anthony; Spring, Jake (2022-06-19). "Brazil indigenous defender, sidelined under Bolsonaro, gave life for 'abandoned' tribes". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
The work of the vigilance team quickly drew attention from local fishermen who sell tons of threatened river fish across the nearby border with Peru. Illegal fishing, mining and poaching in the area is often financed by criminal groups laundering money from a growing cross-border drug trade, according to state and federal police.
- CNN Brasil(in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ISSN 2317-1448.
- ISBN 978-0-8165-2118-0.)
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- ^ "Amazon Indians find plane crash survivors". 30 October 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-15.