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Over the last few years, there have been sweeping cuts to indigenous protection budgets. Under President Jair Bolsonaro - a man who has little time for the indigenous communities or environmental agencies - the indigenous protection agency FUNAI has been weakened, surveillance has fallen, as too have fines doled out to those who break the law.