TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Eugenia LOGIURATTO, Anderson COELHO & Ramon SAHMKOW
Antonio Kopakan, 11, who is one of the youngest activists of the Project Zag (Araucaria in the native Xokleng language), plants an Araucaria tree in Jose Boiteux, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, on March 13, 2023. - Carl Gakran is clear: the extinction of the araucaria trees in southern Brazil would lead to the disappearance of his people, the Xokleng indigenous people. That is why they are planting thousands of seedlings of this endangered species that provides them with food, medicine and spiritual meaning. (Photo by ANDERSON COELHO / AFP)