‘Man in the Hole’, lone survivor of Amazon tribe massacre, escapes ranchers’ bullets

He has lived alone in the jungle for decades, the lone survivor of an Amazon tribe massacred by Brazilian ranchers in their quest for land.

[Photograph by: Charles Thomas]

Brazilian Amazon chief: The people destroying our forest are naive... not us

The Surui, with a proud history of resistance, fought them with bows and arrows but it was hopeless and, on September 7, 1969, they were forced to give up. It was a disaster. Within three years disease had reduced them from 5,000 to 300. The Brazilian government encouraged settlers by telling them indigenous lands had no owners and illegal logging flourished.

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Digital Activism in the Rainforest

After getting in touch with the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) NGO, Almir decided he should go to San Francisco to try to talk directly to the people at Google. His ideas was to use the web to broadcast information to the rest of the world about the government’s neglect regarding the devastation of indigenous land and the Amazon rainforest.

[Photograph by: Luke MacGregor/REUTERS]