‘Fire is nearing our reserve, we need to be united’: Brazilian indigenous speak out as Amazon fires rage | World News, The Indian Express

‘Fire is nearing our reserve, we need to be united’: Brazilian indigenous speak out as Amazon fires rage | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Altamira |Updated: August 29, 2019 9:00:30 pm

‘Fire is nearing our reserve, we need to be united’: Brazilian indigenous speak out as Amazon fires rage

Kayapo, one of the Bau people's leaders, helps organise a village watch group to protect the community's lands from encroaching flames as well as illegal loggers, miners and others seeking to exploit the area.

Fire consumes an area in the Alvorada da Amazonia region, in Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The country’s satellite monitoring agency has recorded more than 41,000 fires in the Amazon region so far this year, with more than half of those coming in August alone. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As fires raged in parts of the Amazon, Mydje Kayapo sat in a small boat looking out over the Curua River in the Bau indigenous reserve. The smell of smoke filled the air, and Kayapo was worried.