“If you destroy the rainforest, you destroy us too”

Calling all junior school educators discussing the Amazon rainforest - this video is a must-see for your students.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest isn’t just an environmental catastrophe, it’s a humanitarian disaster for the 1 million Indigenous people who call it home. Of course, it needn’t be this way: When the rights of Indigenous peoples are respected and their lands protected against outsiders, they can live so well in the rainforest.