Loggers face Indian rights group accusations

Loggers in Brazil are razing forest dangerously close to where government anthropologists detected traces of an isolated Amazon tribe, despite a judge’s order to stay away from the area, an Indian rights group said yesterday.

The Catholic Church’s Indigenous Missionary Council said logging operations were threatening the so-called Rio Pardo Indians in midwestern Mato Grosso state, 1,250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, Council spokeswoman Priscila Carvalho said.