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Deforestation babacu_09rf00099.jpg
Babacu tree burning, deforestation for family farming - small landowner -  at Itamatatiua Quilombo in Alcantara, Maranhao State, Northeast Brazil.  A quilombo is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos were escaped former slaves and, in some cases, a minority of marginalised non-slave Brazilians that faced oppression during colonization.