Guajajaras and Awá tribes unite in Brazil to protect the forest from fire and deforestation

With their lands under constant attacks by loggers, the tribes of Guajajaras and Awás united in Maranhão to protect the forest.

In total there are more than 14 thousand Guajajaras Indians from more than 150 villages. In recent months, they have come into contact with the Awás, a tribe that lived in isolation within the forest.

Filmmaker Flay Guajajara has produced a film, "Ka'a Zar Ukyze Wà - The Owners of the Forest in Danger", to be released today, in Sao Paulo, which shows the meeting of the two tribes.

Located in the Araribóia indigenous land in Maranhão, they are one of the last hunter and gatherer peoples in the world and, according to experts, may have their days numbered if the destruction of the forest does not stop.

Now with Jair Bolsonaro's government, deforestation is growing to frightening levels.