A world redrawn: virus a ‘genocide’ threat for Amazon, warns Salgado

Legendary photographer Sebastiao Salgado has warned of a “genocide” of the Amazon’s indigenous peoples if the Brazilian government does not do more to protect them from the coronavirus. The country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro — who has dismissed the virus as a “little flu” — has long been accused of encouraging loggers and farmers to invade indigenous reserves and of dismantling government agencies set up to protect them….