Native people have good reason to fear changes when a new road cuts through their lands.. In states of Brazil adjacent to Bolivia new main road construction fast accelerated the clearing of forests enough to be visible by a network of feather like roads spreading out for logging and homesteading brought on by main road.

The forested states were largely the wild west for logging and mining and a large increase in illegal forest removal went on in anticipation of changes to law governing 80% set aside requirements..

Sustainable ways of living by indigenous peoples are made impossible as forests are cleared and settlers move in not to mention what mining does to the land and local communities.