The land invaders—a cutthroat group of cattle farmers, land traffickers and gold prospectors whom the indigenous refer to collectively as “colonists”—are not respecting the indigenous land titles, says Robins.
“They see the forest as no-man’s land. But it’s not; it’s the biodiversity that provides us with food security,” Robins says. “Soon, we are going to have to start asking Sinapred (Nicaragua’s disaster-relief authority) for bags of food, because the advance of the agricultural frontier is destroying the forests and driving off the animals that we hunt for food.”
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