Mining, ranching, and health care chaos threaten Yanomami
For thousands of years, the Yanomami have thrived in the rainforests of South America. Now, they are struggling as the government fails to protect them from criminal invasions, attacks and disease.
The Nukak Indians live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, on the fringe of the Amazon basin. They are just one of six groups who together make up the Maku peoples, all nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the headwaters of northwest Amazonia.
The Enawene Nawe live in an area of savannah and tropical rainforest in Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. Much of the forest is rapily being converted into cattle pasture and soya plantations, which are now encroaching onto the Indians' land.
The Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa. They have experienced a genocide which has been almost completely ignored; having once occupied the whole of southern Africa, just 100,000 remain today. Most have lost their land to white or Bantu colonists.
