Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

RIPÁ, Brazil — One muggy morning last December, eight women and their chief drove out of the Indigenous Xavante village of Ripá across a forested savanna in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. After a few miles, the road petered out. They walked on in single file through the knee-high grass. They got little shade … Continue reading Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado