More than 25 years after the existence of one of the Amazon’s most vulnerable nomadic hunter-gatherer communities was confirmed, the Brazilian government has begun demarcating the Pardo River Kawahiva Indigenous territory , giving greater protection to the uncontacted people. The demarcation of the 410,000-hectare (1m-acre) territorylocated between the states of Mato Grosso and Amazonas in north-west Brazil , was confirmed by the National Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation (Funai) last week. But the process remains fraught, with legal challenges from groups linked to the country’s agribusiness sector, and the forthcoming presidential election in October. Although highly threatened by armed groups linked to the expansion of farming, land grabs, illegal logging and mining in the region, some isolated Indigenous peoples are showing signs not only of surviving but even thriving in the Amazon . Screengrab from a video showing an Indigenous man in the uncontacted Kawahiva’s territory in the Brazilian Amazon.…