• Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened

    Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened
    Generations of women of the Amazon and Cerrado have split the coconuts of the babaçu tree for the oil. As the forests are cleared and electric fences put up, they must fight to secure rights to their beloved trees Photographs by Kristin Bethge for the GuardianEarly on a Saturday morning in Monte Alegre, five women are out in the forest, deftly smacking fist-sized brown coconuts on a blade. In a shady spot amid the trees, they sit around a mound of babaçu – also called babassu

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