Paulinho Paiakan in the Amazon Basin, Brazil in 1992. Source:
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One
of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon rainforest, indigenous chief
Paulinho Paiakan, died after contracting the coronavirus, activists said
Wednesday.
Paiakan,
who rose to fame leading the fight against the Belo Monte hydroelectric project
in the 1980s, died Tuesday at a hospital in the city of Redencao, in
northern Brazil, said Gert-Peter Bruch, founder of environmental group
Planet Amazon.
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