The US and Europe lobby very hard to create really vast Indian reservations inside the Amazon jungle. Coincidentally, these reservations are located where the trees with the most expensive woods are located, not to mention the largest gold and niobium deposits just to name a few.

And when the brazilian authorities inspect these "reservations", SURPRISE!, they find american and european representatives stealing the natural resources.

Just to be more specific, the Yanomami reservation (which Al Gore & company lobbied so hard to create) has two times the size of Portugal, but for 3000 indians. This piece of land has some of the largest concentrations of mineral resources in the world.

The US want to stop the proper development and integration of the vast Amazon jungle into the respective south american countries so that, when the time comes, the US (with its 22 newly built military bases surrounding the region) will "intercede" in the name of "ecology".

How naive or stupid people have to be to believe that large corporations care about the indians or their environments at all...

Brazilians, like me, are still shocked in disbelief when the foreign press depict the Amazon Jungle as a country or something that doesn't actually is part of the south-american countries where it spreads into. Usually those articles also mention the USA as having some level of domain above it, which isn't far from reality at all, it seems.


better happen more often than every 10 years then...

3% of Earths landmass is rainforest, and 33% is desert: terrifying.

AT adds: You can't make CPUs out of wood, you know.