加布里埃拉·萨·佩索阿 圣保罗 —— 巴西检察官和原住民权益倡导者提起诉讼，要求选举当局协助偏远亚马孙社区的选民行使宪法保障的投票权，在周日的总统决选中投出选票。
GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA SAO PAULO — Brazilian prosecutors and advocates for Indigenous people are suing to force electoral authorities to help voters in remote Amazon communities exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right to cast ballots in Sunday’s presidential runoff.
左派总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦和他的极右翼挑战者、参议员弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗——前总统雅伊尔·博尔索纳罗之子——在保护亚马孙雨林的问题上立场截然不同，根据近期民调，竞选形势胶着。
Leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his far-right challenger, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, have markedly different approaches to protecting the Amazon , and the race is tight according to recent polls.
巴西原住民联盟（Apib）周四宣布，已向司法监察长办公室提交紧急请求，要求确保选举官员迅速采取行动，帮助原住民前往投票中心。
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, known as Apib, announced Thursday that it filed an urgent request for the Justice Inspector General’s Office to make sure electoral officials act quickly to help Indigenous people reach voting centers.
联邦检察官周三在帕拉州联邦法院提起诉讼，寻求一项全国性命令，以确保原住民能够投票，内容包括提供河路、陆路或空中免费交通，以及在投票站提供食物、翻译、文化协调员和原住民语言标识的经费。
And federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Para seeking a nationwide order to ensure Indigenous peoples can vote, by providing free transportation by river, land or air, and by funding food, interpreters, cultural facilitators and signs in Indigenous languages at polling places.
检察官的起诉书引用了巴西各地社区的陈述，包括指控市政府出于政治原因拒绝提供交通，以及牧场主阻止原住民工人离开农场去投票。
The prosecutors’ suit cites accounts from communities across Brazil, including allegations that municipal governments denied transportation for political reasons and ranchers prevented Indigenous workers from leaving farms to vote.
Apib 表示，最严重的问题涉及巴西北部丛林深处的 43 个原住民社区。周二，亚马孙州选举法院驳回了代表贾瓦里河谷原住民的 Univaja 协会提交的交通协助请愿。
The most serious problem involves 43 Indigenous communities deep in the jungle in northern Brazil, Apib said. On Tuesday, the Amazonas state electoral court rejected a petition for transportation assistance filed by Univaja, an association representing Indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley.
其中一些选民居住地距离投票站长达 895 公里（556 英里），需要乘船三至五天。官员需要使用军用飞机将投票机和选举工作人员运送到一些偏远地区。
Some of these voters live as far as 895 kilometers (556 miles) from their polling places, requiring boat trips of three to five days. Officials need to use military aircraft to transport voting machines and election workers to some remote locations.
“国家把票箱送进森林，却不把选民送到票箱前，”Apib 说。
“The state brings the ballot box to the forest but does not bring the voter to the ballot box,” Apib said.
2014年，在原住民专家布鲁诺·佩雷拉的努力下，贾瓦里河谷领地的村庄迎来了首批投票中心。2022年，佩雷拉在贾瓦里河谷执行任务时，与英国记者多姆·菲利普斯一同遇害。
Villages in the Javari Valley territory received their first voting centers in 2014, thanks to the efforts of Bruno Pereira, an Indigenous expert who died in 2022 while on assignment in the Javari Valley alongside British journalist Dom Phillips.
巴西政府原住民事务局（Funai）告诉美联社，该机构已就决选的交通需求咨询了社区，但表示安排交通是州选举当局的责任。
The Brazilian government’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, told AP it has consulted communities about transportation needs for the runoff but said state electoral authorities are responsible for arranging it.
保护原住民领地被广泛视为遏制亚马孙雨林毁林最有效的方式之一。亚马孙是世界上最大的热带雨林，也是全球气候的关键调节器。
Protecting Indigenous territories is widely seen as one of the most effective ways to curb deforestation in the Amazon , the world’s largest rainforest and a key regulator of global climate.
研究人员警告，持续的森林损失可能加速全球变暖。由追踪土地利用的非政府组织网络MapBiomas于2022年进行的一项分析发现，过去三十年间，巴西原住民领地的原生植被仅损失了1%，而全国私有土地的损失比例为20%。
Researchers warn that continued forest loss could accelerate global warming. A 2022 analysis by MapBiomas, a network of nongovernmental groups tracking land use, found Indigenous territories in Brazil had lost just 1% of native vegetation over three decades, compared with 20% on private land nationwide.