Part of the Sebastião Salgado na Amazônia series. Discusses the threat posed by COVID-19 to the Parque Indígena do Xingu and the impacts of agrotoxins used by local soya farmers
Xingu fecha fronteiras para evitar chegada do coronavírus
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