Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong investigation by our @bykarlamendes.bsky.social reveals large areas of the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous inhabitants:

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

A year-long Mongabay investigation tracked several dozen illegal or suspicious activities in and around Araroibia in the last few years, including logging, deforestation and cattle ranching, and found...