MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: Some young Gauchos rest after collecting the cattle.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: The rodeo is one of the main hobbies of the population Gaucha del Alto Floresta.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014:Young people have fun together a small lagoon near the community of Sipo
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014:Young people have fun together a small lagoon near the community of Sipo
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: Some young Gauchos rest after collecting the cattle.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: The rodeo is one of the main hobbies of the population Gaucha del Alto Floresta.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: A group of Indians seemed to stand guard at the toll road that crosses their indigenous reservation.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: On one side the Jungle. On the other a field prepared to plant Soya. In the deforested area, only a couple of trees remain of the original vegetation, they are two Castaños de Brasil, protected by law. This giant is the symbol of the Amazon.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: Wood is one of the greatest natural riches that Brazil exports. To prevent the dismantling without control, the Government monitors the activity. Each cutting project is registered and controlled by state engineers.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: In Mato Grosso there is a large number of diamonds flush with the surface. Its exploitation in almost all cases is prohibited, but its illegal extraction is continuous via the garimpeiros that sell them on the black market and 4% of the profits obtained are for them. The rest is for the bosses.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: In Mato Grosso there is a large number of diamonds flush with the surface. Its exploitation in almost all cases is prohibited, but its illegal extraction is continuous via the garimpeiros that sell them on the black market and 4% of the profits obtained are for them. The rest is for the bosses.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: The children of a Manoki indigenous community gather around a fire as the cold Amazonian night falls.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: An indigenous Manoki fishes on the slopes of a dam located on the border of his shelter.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: The Manoki Reserve lives today surrounded by a large ocean of soy, corn and cotton plantations. This border known as the arch of Amazonian destruction is the greatest threat facing the indigenous communities of this region of Brazil.
MATOGROSSO , BRASIL - JULY 2014: On one side the Jungle. On the other a field prepared to plant Soya. In the deforested area, only a couple of trees remain of the original vegetation, they are two Castaños de Brasil, protected by law. This giant is the symbol of the Amazon.
The Amazon, the most important natural reserve on the planet. José Faustino, with a yellow shirt and his teeth stained with tobacco, arrived 35 years ago from Curitiba. Faustino says that in a few years everything has changed so much that a foreigner could not even imagine it. There were jungle and Indians! . But now all that remains are Brazil nuts, some protected trees, to remember that this was once a huge green blanket. The phenomenon has a name. It is Amazonian deforestation. It starts in the east in Belem and reaches the state of Acre, on the border with Peru. A surface equal to the distance between Madrid and Moscow and whose width reaches a thousand kilometers.
