The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
by Jonathan Watts in Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Territo from on (#KZKB)
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhio, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action
With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.
The Ka'apor - a tribe of about 2,200 people in Maranhio state - have organised a militia of "forest guardians" who follow a strategy of nature conservation through aggressive confrontation.
