Climate activist Txai Suruí on indigenous solutions to saving our planet

“It is not enough just to protect the forest, but we have to give back to her what we took from her.” 

The world seems to be facing an uphill battle when it comes to climate change, indigenous cultures around the world are forced to accept this reality. But what if they actually have solutions to fix our human relationship with our Mother Earth?

Matiu Hamuera talked to Txai Suruí, a 25-year-old climate activist from the Lapetanha and Suruí tribe about their ongoing fight to protect the world's largest and most diverse tropical rainforest on earth, the Amazon rainforest. 

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