Maps reveal how Amazon development is closing in on isolated tribes
By Barbara FraserAug. 17, 2017 , 1:20 PM
LIMA—Development projects in the Amazon Basin—including dams, roads, and oil and gas operations—are encroaching on forests that are the last refuges of thousands of indigenous people who continue to shun contact with the outside world, according to a study that estimates the tribes’ locations.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/maps-reveal-how-amazon-development-closing-isolated-tribes
