Explore issues about the region's indigenous people on the BBC News website:

• Local people 'to preserve nature'
Indigenous people can help curb the destruction of forests.

• Photojournal: living by a threatened forest
See how Angela Maria Borges dos Santos ekes out a living without damaging the rainforest.

• Timeline: Brazil
Key events in the history of Brazil.

• Country profile: Brazil
Brazil is South America's biggest and most influential country and takes up almost half the continent.

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