A team of Brazilian experts plus an international team
of 13 Greenpeace volunteers will provide logistical support
to the Deni people over the next two months while they demarcate
their lands.
Volunteers from Brazil, Chile, the UK, the Netherlands,
Sweden, Spain, Greece, Germany, Austria, the US and China
will be filing daily updates about their experiences in
the jungle and the progress of the demarcation.
The volunteers will work in three different teams to help
the Deni demarcate the perimeter of their land that is most
vulnerable to invasion. Team C will work by boat following
the Coxodoã, Cuniuã and Canaçã
rivers, the natural boundary of the Deni territory along
the eastern perimeter. They will assist the Deni in erecing signs along the
rivers that identify the area as indigenous land.
 Teams A and B will start at the north west tip working
away from each other cutting a 1.5 meter path through the
jungle and erecting signs identifying the territory.
The Deni lands will link up with six other indigenous lands
to the east and west to create an ecological corridor of
more than 3,000,000 hectares of pristine forest.
Hear from the volunteers!
Sound files from Sze-Pang, Bryan, Merel and Marcio can be found in their biographies (click on photo at right).
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