Brazil: Indigenous group blocks truckers with illegal timber harvested from their lands

greenpeace.org reported that trucks filled with timber from illegal logging operations in the Amazon have been stopped in their tracks by an indigenous village protesting the continued exploitation of their lands. With little or no support from the local or federal authorities, the Pukobjê-Gavião people in Maranhão state, Brazil, are refusing to stand aside as their forests are destroyed by illegal loggers. The Pukobjê-Gavião have blocked four trucks and a tractor filled with fresh timber from leaving their lands. Read Article