"A cabruca in Terra Vista during the chocolate harvest.Teia dos Povos A crowd of protesters - largely Indigenous Amazonian people - marched into a restricted area of the 30 th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this month in Belém, Brazil, declaring that their forests are not for sale. "We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers," one Tupinamba community leader proclaimed. Global carbon emissions continue to rise, and deforestation is moving full speed ahead across Brazil."
"Since 2013, they have kept the loggers out and restored 80 percent of their deforested lands by turning to direct action, closing logging access roads, burning bridges, torching hundreds of logging trucks, and temporarily capturing hundreds of loggers, stripping them and tying them up before expelling them from the territory. Their territorial defense has included kicking out the FUNAI, the Brazilian government agency responsible for protecting Indigenous peoples, which they accuse of complicity with loggers."
Indigenous Amazonian communities have taken direct action to defend and restore forested territories in the face of rising carbon emissions and accelerating deforestation in Brazil. Protesters marched into COP30 restricted areas demanding lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers. The Ka'apor closed logging roads, burned bridges, torched hundreds of logging trucks, captured and expelled loggers, and restored roughly 80 percent of deforested lands since 2013. The Ka'apor expelled FUNAI and replaced imposed governance with traditional Tuxa ta Pame structures. Community-led territorial defense and restoration persists independently of government or private investor protection.
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