Jakarewãja and Amakaria, two women from endangered Awá tribe from the Brazilian Amazon, pictured while sick with tuberculosis after being led out of the forest in this 2015 photo. They left clothes they had been wearing strewn on a path — and their escape left a very clear message. Caption The Awá tribe is caught between a diminishing forest and the dangers posed by the contemporary world. The Awá tribe lives on the eastern fringe of Brazil's Amazon rain forest. [Even the military may not be enough to protect an endangered Amazon tribe]Threats like these can mean that “life is tough in the forest.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2016 09:00 UTC