UNESCO biosphere bulldozed by Brazilian ranchers

A Totobiegosode man making string.Photo:SurvivalA UNESCO Biosphere Reserve inhabited by an uncontacted tribe is being bulldozed by Brazilian cattle ranchers at a devastating rate.

A government representative and two relatives of the tribe have tried to enter the region, but personnel from the ranchers' company, Yaguarete Pora S.A, barred them.The reserve, in the Chaco region in Paraguay, is home to the only uncontacted tribe in South America outside of the Amazon, the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode.