Save Awa Indians
The Awa Indians are a peaceful tribe of hunter/gatherers who live in perfect harmony with their home in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Victims of loggers, hunters, and developers, the Awa have been harassed and even murdered so long that their community has dwindled to only 300. Despite a World Bank loan that enabled Brazil to demarcate land specifically for Indian tribes, the Awa continue to be threatened by illegal encroachers on their land. Their lands are still being logged, and the tribe's food sources have been severely depleted. The Awa are also extremely vulnerable to infections and disease introduced by outsiders to their community.
Tell Brazil's president to protect the Awa, to remove trespassers on their lands, and to preserve their forests and game.
We the undersigned are deeply saddened at the plight of the Awa, residents of the Brazilian Amazon rainforests. Not only has Brazil delayed in protecting and demarcating territory for these innocent hunter/gatherers, it now appears that the boundaries of the Awa territories are not being respected and that the Awa are still being harrassed and even murdered by those who do not respect their culture. We beg of you to remove illegal occupiers of the Awa land and prosecute those who have made life even more precarious for a group of people who only want to live at peace with the forest.
