Davi Kopenawa Yanomami is a shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami individuals. He led the long-running worldwide marketing campaign to safe Yanomami land rights, for which he gained recognition in Brazil and world wide. He’s central to the continued struggle of indigenous peoples throughout Brazil for his or her rights.
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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami © Pablo Levinas/Survival Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman of the Yanomami tribe, Brazil. Davi can also be the President of Hutukara Yanomami Affiliation. © Fiona Watson/Survival Davi and Survival protesting in London within the 90’s. © Survival Worldwide Yanomami ladies and kids relaxation in a forest backyard, Brazil. The Yanomami develop round 60 crops in these gardens, which account for 80% of their meals provide. © Fiona Watson/Survival Davi Kopenawa surrounded by kids in Demini, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami girl, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival Davi Yanomami and Survival Worldwide’s former Director Stephen Corry in 1989, on Davi’s first journey outdoors Brazil: Survival received the Proper Livelihood Award, and requested Davi to just accept it on Survival’s behalf. © Survival Yanomami boy, Brazil © © Fiona Watson/Survival Davi and Survival’s Fiona Watson at a public occasion throughout Davi’s first journey outdoors Brazil, in 1989. © Survival Davi and Survival’s former Director Stephen Corry in Weimar, Germany, on the event of Davi collectively receiving the Goethe Medaille with photographer and campaigner Claudia Andujar, 2018. © Survival Davi Yanomami and Survival Worldwide’s former Director Stephen Corry on the 1989 Proper Livelihood Award ceremony, Davi’s first journey outdoors Brazil. © Survival Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Survival’s Advocacy Director Fiona Watson in Italy for the launch of the Italian version of Davi’s guide The Falling Sky, 2018 © Survival Davi on the Empire State Constructing in New York. Survival organized Davi’s first journey to the USA , when he met the UN Secretary Basic and others to boost consciousness of his individuals’s battle. 1991 © Survival Survival Worldwide held an everyday vigil for a few years within the Nineties outdoors Brazilian Embassies in Europe, to protest the invasion and destruction of the Yanomami’s territory. © Survival Davi and photographer Claudia Andujar in Weimar, Germany, 2018, with Survival’s former Director Stephen Corry and Advocacy Director Fiona Watson. Andujar and Davi have been among the many winners of that 12 months’s Goethe Medaille. © Survival Davi outdoors the UK’s Home of Commons on his first journey outdoors Brazil, with Survival. 1989. © Survival
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