Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has experienced its worst fire season on record, but a tiny Indigenous territory here has for four years now kept the flames at bay.
The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires from devastating the Santana Indigenous Territory in Mato Grosso state.
by Mariana Rosetti and Paola Churchill
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/an-indigenous-women-led-revolution-fights-fires-in-brazils-cerrado/
