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More Indigenous people have been killed by the coronavirus in Brazil than any other group of people. It has become a state of emergency that has highlighted the ongoing anti-Indigenous policies of far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on a promise to stop the demarcation of Indigenous territories. Indigenous chiefs, elders and knowledge carriers have died in the pandemic, taking with them a wealth of cultural knowledge valuable to the entire planet.
Indigenous peoples protect 80 per cent of the world's biodiversity and claim only five per cent of the world's population. Just as the fires in the Amazon last year reminded the world that we all rely on the Amazon and those who protect the planet's biodiversity for a healthy future, COVID-19's devastating impact on Indigenous peoples serves as another wake-up call.
First Nations Forward director Emilee Gilpin joins us live from Brazil to explain what it's like on the ground, what the world needs to know and how Bolsonaro's policies are endangering Indigenous people.
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