Adriano Karipuna, a leader of an Indigenous community in the Brazilian state of Rondônia with only 58 members remaining, travels to New York and attends the United Nations' Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFI), to address the serious threats the Karipuna people face through deforestation.
At the Forum, held in New York from 16th till 22nd of April, Adriano Karipuna reports about the dramatic situation his people face through deforestation. Illegal invasion of their traditional, demarcated and officially protected land, stealing of timber, sales of land plots and illegal miners are putting the Karipuna and their way of life at risk. He calls on the international community and the Brazilian government to fulfil its duty and protect Indigenous Peoples and their rainforests.