Article 457FY Brazil’s biggest tribal reserve faces uncertain future under Bolsonaro

Brazil’s biggest tribal reserve faces uncertain future under Bolsonaro

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Dom Phillips in São Paulo
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Far-right government vows to legalise mining and commercial farming on indigenous Yanomami land

The indigenous leader and campaigning photographer who fought to create Brazil's biggest tribal reserve warned it could be threatened under the far-right government of the president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, as a major retrospective exhibition opens.

Bolsonaro has said the Yanomami reserve, which at 9.6m hectares (24m acres) is twice the size of Switzerland, was too big for its indigenous population.

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