High-risk expedition succeeds with isolated tribe in Brazil
Posted Apr 5, 2019 10:05 am.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s agency for indigenous peoples says a high-risk expedition in the Amazon has reunited an isolated group with relatives and eased tensions with a rival tribe in the region.
The FUNAI agency said Friday a team of nearly two dozen reached 34 members of the Korubo tribe near the border with Peru in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The expedition included relatives of the isolated group of Korubos.
The initiative also aimed to avoid a conflict with the Matis tribe living about 12 miles (20 kilometres) away from the isolated group.
The expedition took place in the Javari Valley, an area of more than 8 million hectares (nearly 31,000 square miles), or bigger than Hungary.
The Associated Press
