In April last year, the government announced that "all" illegal invaders had been removed from the indigenous Awa tribe's land in the eastern Amazon rainforest. Survival of Brazil's many uncontacted tribes are threatened by deforestation and logging. 90% of Colniza's income is from illegal logging," the organisation said. Rio Pardo lies within the municipality of Colniza, one of the most violent areas in Brazil. "Their territory, known as Rio Pardo, is in Mato Grosso state, where illegal deforestation rates are the highest on record in Brazil's Amazon. The organisation has claimed that the tribe is on the run because of loggers, miners and cattle ranchers who often invade their land. Officials said that adults and children of the tribe "appeared to be healthy". The government's Indian Affairs Agency, Funai, spotted them last in 2011 during a chance encounter. The Kawahiva tribe is a small group of indigenous people who have remained out of contact with the outside world. The illegal loggers were held in Guariba Reserve, a buffer zone for the territory of Kawahiva tribe, tribal rights group Survival International said. A member of Brazil's Kawahiva tribe spotted during a chance encounter in 2011 FUNAIĪ Brazilian government task force has arrested illegal loggers at an area in the Amazon rainforest that is close to the territory of an uncontacted tribe.
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