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(19 Jan 2018) Indigenous men, women and children wearing brightly coloured headdresses greeted Pope Francis up his arrival in the Amazon on Friday, urging the pontiff to help them protect the delicate ecosystem from an onslaught of new threats dramatically changing the biome.
Francis arrived in the scorching hot city of Puerto Maldonado, where he was welcomed by native people who ran along the pontiff's motorcade carrying Vatican-coloured yellow and white balloons, while others cheered and waved.
Inside the giant coliseum where thousands awaited his arrival, indigenous performers danced and played music on reed instruments.
Francis' trip to the Amazon comes as the expansion of illegal gold mining and farming as well as new roads and dams have turned thousands of acres of once lush green forest into barren, contaminated wasteland.
"The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have probably never been as threatened before as they are now," he told his audience, adding that "the Church is not alien to your problems and your lives."
Francis has previously called on world leaders to protect the Amazon, likening it to one of the "lungs of our planet," and is widely expected to reiterate that message when he speaks in Puerto Maldonado on Friday.
He is also using the trip to set the stage for a big church meeting next year on the Amazon and the native peoples who reside there.
After the ceremony the Pope was given a crown of brightly coloured feathers and a holster made of beads as a gift.

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