How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon’s Uncontacted Tribes

How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon’s Uncontacted Tribes

How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon’s Uncontacted Tribes Organized crime has become an existential threat to the uncontacted Indigenous peoples of the Amazon as illegal gold miners, drug traffickers, loggers, and poachers advance ever deeper into the world’s largest rainforest. The Amazon basin is home to around 95% of the Indigenous people living in isolation, with an estimated 124 groups living in Brazil alone, according to a recent repor…