Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting [Awa indigenous peoples]…in direct danger. Brazilian company Vale…wants to expand this stretch of railway line to allow some of the longest trains in the world to run simultaneously in both directions, to increase capacity…However, despite…recent objections to Vale’s expansion plans, the Awá have not been consulted properly…Vale has instead assumed the railway’s inevitability and offered the tribe compensation. This decision breaks Brazilian and international law, which require companies to consult indigenous communities before beginning such works…