How this Brazil indigenous group finds new home in search of water

Weraxunu taking a selfie picture during a visit to the land where his community will move to – the Yarم Mirim indigenous land – in the municipality of Marica, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Photos: Andre Borges/AFP

Clutching a machete and a cell phone, indigenous leader Vanderlei Weraxunu tours his community's future home, a swathe of tropical forest land north of Rio de Janeiro where his people will finally have water.

Weraxunu is one of around 50 members of the Mbya Guarani people who will soon establish a new home in the middle of what will be Brazil's first municipal nature reserve, where they plan to live according to their ancestral lifestyle.