Guardians Of The RainForest Gunned Down

Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a 26-year-old member of the Guajajara indigenous group living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, was murdered on Friday (Nov. 1) by a group of loggers working illegally in the area.

The spike in deaths coincides with the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to open up protected indigenous lands to economic development. (The Bolsonaro administration also overlooked illegal logging operations that resulted in the ignition of hundreds of wildfires throughout the Amazon earlier this year.)

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