Brazil's Indigenous groups resist railway project threatening Amazon lands (opens in new tab)

Indigenous activists in Brazil have staged sit-ins outside the Supreme Court and marched on Congress and the presidential palace, demanding the demarcation of their lands and opposing the Fail Grown Railway project\. The proposed railway would connect Brazil's grain-producing regions to ports over 1,000 kilometres away in Pará state, cutting freight costs by up to 40 percent and speeding exports to buyers like China\. However, tribal leaders warn that whilst the railway may not cross their te...