Thread by @mariliacout

@ThompskeKathryn 1/ No, they don't depend on the forest. It might come as a surprise to most, but the rain forest is, (a) an ecosystemic mosaic; (b) it is highly dynamic. The #Indigenous folks are the only ones who can
- protect
- manage
- understand
the rain forest...

@ThompskeKathryn 2/ which is why we, scientists, listen to them first. They have been there for over 10 thousand years. During this time, according to the most brilliant zoologist to describe the Amazon, P. Vanzolini and geomorphologist Aziz Ab'Saber

@ThompskeKathryn 3/ The area we call "Amazonia" has had forested "islands" expanding and shrinking, savannah-like areas, desert areas, swamp areas and others doing the same. That, happening along many thousands of years

@ThompskeKathryn 4/ ... has generated the most unique environment in biodiversity terms. Scientists have began to grasp at this by the late 1960s. The #Indigenous people living there understand, manage and live WITH it for thousands of years.

@ThompskeKathryn 5/ Oh, no: they don't "depend" on anything. Except, maybe, a little less death squads roaming THEIR land and killing them. But WE depend on them to understand the rain forest and, above all, to protect it.

@ThompskeKathryn 6/ By killing them, the barbaric fascist mob ensures that the last wisdom available to protect the forest is destroyed. They also kill scientists, by the way. I lost two friends - one plant ecologist and a chemist.

@ThompskeKathryn 7/ I hope to have clarified the issue.

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