'The forest is shedding tears': the women defending their Amazon homeland

Global Greengrants UK, one of the four groups we are helping to fight the climate crisis, supports indigenous BraziliansPlease donate to our appeal hereIt is midnight at an almost deserted bus station and one of the Amazon's most courageous warriors is sitting on a plastic chair and breastfeeding her child, apparently indifferent to the hefty price on her head.Illegal miners have offered 100g of gold to anyone who kills Maria Leusa Munduruku, a forest defender, indigenous leader and women's rights activist who has spearheaded campaigns to halt invasions of the Tapajós river basin by polluters, loggers and dam builders. Continue reading...