Bushe Matis, an Indigenous Matis man from the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon, tells us why it’s important to protected uncontacted peoples.

He works at UNIVAJA, an Indigenous org that fights for the rights of uncontacted peoples in the Javari Valley.

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“They’ve devastated our forests and lands.”

Lesner Figueroa, a Bribri Indigenous man from Costa Rica, denounces decades of invasions, violent dispossession, and environmental destruction that have drastically reduced his people’s lands.

Bokumu is a recently contacted Hongana Manyawa man from the Halmahera rainforest of Indonesia. He was first contacted in 2009 when Weda Bay Nickel began exploring his territory.
Nickel mining for electric car batteries is destroying the Hongana Manyawa's rainforest.

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📢 ”It’s a choice they made.”

Beto Marubo, an Indigenous Marubo person from the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, speaks on why it’s so important to protect uncontacted peoples’ territories.

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Alex Tinyú, a Nukak man, was a child when his territory in Colombia was invaded by missionaries, coca growers and others in the 80s. After contact, over half his people died from disease & violence.

Help us campaign for Alex’s people, donate today - doubled for Giving Tuesday! svlint.org/donation