Tag: Munduruku

Sick forest: Munduruku children will not play and may be contaminated by mercury

Eleven-year-old Isaías* cannot speak and cannot walk; he is carried around by his father, who carved an armchair out of wood to make up for the lack of a wheelchair. Isaías’s siblings Hélio, 12, Vandir, 8, and Juliana, 5, cannot walk or speak either. Their arms and...