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Basket of old soda cans sold to tourists that walked in to the Queimada dos Britos. Tourism is reaching the quiet life of Queimada dos Britos which is well received when the visitors walk in. Locals keep a stock of drinks that they sell to tourists as a way to make some money that allows them to buy some necessary products like clothes, coffee and rice. The downturn is that more and more agencies from nearby cities are bringing tourists into the park on motor vehicles that on the locals view are affecting environmentally the park and their peaceful life. But not only their life is threaten by the tourists and the sand. The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) is planning to remove them since they live in a National Park. The residents refuse to move since many of them were born there and lived all their lives in the Queimada. They claim that more than a threat they are a protection to the Lençois do Maranhão.

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Brazil - The island, oasis in Lençóis do Maranhão
Basket of old soda cans sold to tourists that walked in to the Queimada dos Britos. Tourism is reaching the quiet life of Queimada dos Britos which is well received when the visitors walk in. Locals keep a stock of drinks that they sell to tourists as a way to make some money that allows them to buy some necessary products like clothes, coffee and rice. The downturn is that more and more agencies from nearby cities are bringing tourists into the park on motor vehicles that on the locals view are affecting environmentally the park and their peaceful life. But not only their life is threaten by the tourists and the sand. The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) is planning to remove them since they live in a National Park. The residents refuse to move since many of them were born there and lived all their lives in the Queimada. They claim that more than a threat they are a protection to the Lençois do Maranhão.
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