Related to SDG 5 Gender Equality; SDG 13 Climate Action and SDG 16 Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions.
"Chiefs such as Tuire at the forefront of protests against illegal logging and mining, and have proved themselves to be valuable leaders and passionate, brave spokespeople."
“More than 8,500 Kayapo people are estimated to live in communities across an area of more than 11 million hectares in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso in northwestern Brazil—the largest area of tropical forest protected by tribes in the world.
Over the past three decades, Kayapo communities have been increasingly exposed to the outside world, bringing major shifts in the tribe's social structure. One of the more recent and unexpected changes has been the emergence of three women chiefs, who are now in charge of villages spread across a vast swath of Amazonian rainforest.”
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