The National Indian Foundation (Funai) reported having only 23 employees to protect an indigenous territory of 10 million hectares, similar in size to Belgium, in Europe. In terms of size, it is as if each employee alone patrolled around 434,000 soccer fields in an area that adds up to the 8.5 million hectares of the indigenous land of Vale do Javari, in Amazonas, the place where the indigenist Bruno Pereira and the journalist were killed. british Dom Phillips.
The information on the staff was communicated this Thursday (30) by Funai server Ricardo Sallum, during a joint hearing of the Chamber and Senate committees, which are following the investigation into the deaths of Dom Bruno. To parliamentarians, Sallum reported the impossibility of protecting, with this force, a territory that has 15 isolated peoples – they have no contact with the rest of Brazil and do not speak Portuguese –, two of whom have recently been in contact and six villages who speak Portuguese.
He also told congressmen that Funai mapped the entry of drug traffickers into the territories of isolated peoples, as well as hunters and fishermen who operate irregularly in the region, and provided information about the lack of minimal infrastructure.
“There is no adequate transport, there is no minimum structure for communication between indigenous peoples,” said Sallum.
THE CNN contacted Funai and is awaiting a response.
Source: CNN Brasil
