Small huts lined up at the margin of one of the tributaries of the Amazon to Iquitos about 40 miles near the town of Indiana.En today, despite the declining population, the natives still living in the American rainforests, although virtually all have been affected by the outside world. Instead of using traditional dress in loincloths, most Native Americans used western clothes and many use metal pots, pans and other utensils in their daily lives. Some groups make handicrafts to sell to tourists who arrive with the boats, while others make routine trips to the city to bring food and merchandise to sell. Almost no native group depends entirely on traditional nomadic hunting, or collecting wild plants. Crops, along with hunting, collecting wild vegetables and fish, serve as a supplementary food source. Usually a family has two gardens: a small one with various types of plants and a larger crop, which may comprise an area of one hectare planted with banana, cassava and rice. These plantations have been planted with the traditional practice of slash and burn method to clear the forest that is not entirely detrimental to the habitat, if carried out as Traditional. Today, hardly any of the Amerindian forest lives in a completely traditional. Perhaps only a few small groups in the Amazon basin can. One of them, Tageri (part of the Huaorani), is severely threatened by oil development in Ecuador. Their situation has become an international battle between environmentalists, human rights defenders, government and industry petrolera.Los social movements of Native Americans have reached the highest level of organization that exists in any rain forest. The formation of ethnic organizations is one way that indigenous people have to protect themselves, as well as its culture and natural resources. The Amerindians have faced a long and bitter battle against land-use change on their land, and today these organizations monitor the incursions of outsiders to their land. The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), reported that invasions by loggers and miners to the Brazilian indigenous reserves have increased since the mid 90's. Loggers erupt every day in Indian lands in search of mahogany, whose extraction is currently banned in Brazil. In the late 90's and early 2000, the clash between the Indians, loggers, miners and oil were attended by the Western press. The current struggle between the Yanomami (Brazil and Venezuela) and thousands of small-scale miners known as "prospectors" (Brazil), received special attention.