The Sunday Read: The War for the Rainforest

Published: April 17, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'The Indigenous Brazilian territory of Ituna-Itat\\xe1 was established in 2011 for the protection of an isolated group that has never been contacted by outsiders or fully confirmed to exist. But despite its special status, it has become one of the most invaded Indigenous territories in Brazil since the election of the pro-development, anti-regulatory president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018 \\u2014 becoming something of a poster board for the Amazon\\u2019s eventual demise.\\n\\nWilliam Langewiesche explores the process of defending these preserves from outside harm, and uses Ituna-Itat\\xe1, which has now been heavily deforested, as a grim illustration of the intractable forces destroying the Amazon through logging, ranching and mining.'