Members of the Warao group of indigenous people left their homes in Venezuela after commercial deforestation made their lives impossible. Photograph: Getty Images
On the fringes of Cop30, an Irish-assisted project is helping people who have had to come to the host city of Belém for other reasons.
Brazil is home to 700,000 Venezuelans who have fled political turmoil, government oppression, violence and land clearances in the last 10 years.
They mostly arrive from the border with northern Brazil and many make their way the region’s cities, Boa Vista, Manaus, Macapa and Belém.
Operation Shelter is the Brazilian governmen
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