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A few weeks ago I was invited to go on a flyover of the Amazon by an environmental group.

We tell from an air strip in a river town right at the heart of the Amazon.

Tom Phillips covers Latin America for the Guardian.

And flying over the Amazon actually is one of the greatest privileges.

It's an incredible sort of humbling experience.

You fly over this absolutely immense forest.

I think it's something that everybody should try and do at least once in their lives.

This vast wonder of nature that just goes on and on and you could fly for hours and hours and hours.

Just seeing rivers and trees.

This crucially important ecosystem that just seems to have no end.

But actually we were there not to marvel at the wonders of this region but to pay witness to

something extraordinarily troubling which is happening at the moment which is that is the clock

runs down or seems to run down on Giabosanara's presidency. A huge explosion of wrecking and deforestation

is underway down below in the forests and on the rivers as people seek to cash in on the

rainforest before a new president is elected who might crack down on what they're doing.

After a couple of hours we came to an Indigenous territory which is home to the Munduru Kuh people.

And that was one of the most devastating things I think I've ever seen.

We crossed over a river which demarcated the east and flank of the Indigenous land when

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