Violence against indigenous people has jumped in Brazil since Jair Bolsonaro became president in January 2019, the Indigenous Missionary Council has reported.
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Cases of violence against indigenous people, ranging from threats to killings, more than doubled to 276 incidents in 2019, CIMI said.
Many of the cases are linked to occupation and illegal exploitation of indigenous land.
Land takeovers, incidents of illegal exploration of resources and of damage to property also showed a strong increase.
Indigenous representatives and environmentalists criticise Bolsonaro's insistence on developing the Amazon rainforest and accuse him of not protecting the ecologically invaluable region.
The president on Wednesday rejected criticism from US presidential candidate Joe Biden, who said the international community should give Brazil 20 billion dollars to stop deforestation in the Amazon and that the country should face economic consequences if it fails.
"It is difficult to understand, as a head of state who fully reopened diplomacy with the United States, after decades of hostile governments, such a disastrous and unnecessary declaration," Bolsonaro said on Twitter.
"What a shame, Mr Joe Biden, in all aspects, what a shame," he added.
Australian Associated Press
