Brazilian indigenous activist Txai Surui talks to AFP on the sidelines of the Web Summit Rio 2023. She is the coordinator of the ethno-environmental defense association Kanindé, which brings together 21 indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
Some 800,000 indigenous people live in Brazil, most of them in reserves that make up 13.75 percent of the territory. Under the government of far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation increased by 75% compared to the previous decade.