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A 1991 arrangement to supply Brazil nut oil between the Kayapo Indians and the The Body Shop collapsed after a dispute over payments and marketing.
Skin-Deep Gains for Amazon Tribe John Lyons 2011
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Ricardo Moraes/Reuters MEDICAL HELP: A boy of the Kayapo tribe played in front of his house in the Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil, Friday, where the "Expedicionarios da Saude" organization was setting up a mobile hospital.
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We've protected over 115,000 sq km of forest, as well as an area bigger than Switzerland for the Kayapo nation.
Trudie Styler: Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves? 2009
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A study by Antonio Barbosa, a chemist from the University of Brasilia, has confirmed that newborn Kayapo children suffer from high levels of mercury contamination — although not to a sufficiently high degree to yield classic mercury poisoning symptoms.
Materials flow of mercury in the economies of the United States and the world USGS 2009
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The study showed that mercury levels in Kayapo women drop significantly during pregnancy as the mercury is transferred from the mother and accumulates in the fetus.
Materials flow of mercury in the economies of the United States and the world USGS 2009
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We met a Kayapo tribesman called Raoni, who asked us to help him deliver a message to the world.
Trudie Styler: Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves? 2009
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Eraldo Peres/Reuters TAKING A SWIG: Cacique Raony Kayapo, from the Kayapo ethnic group, drank a soda before marching at the Terra Livre, or Free Earth, indigenous camp in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday.
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The Xikrin Indians, cousins to the Kayapo, have plans to selectively cut and sell their valuable hardwood instead of playing into the hands of unscrupulous lumbermen.
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Known equally for colorful headdresses and their talent for attracting foreign support, the Kayapo were once the darlings of the green movement.
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In 1998 a band of armed Kayapo threatened a team of forest police who were conducting a bust of illegal lumber companies in Resende, a key stop on the black-market mahogany trade.
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