Forest a one-stop shop for Amazon tribe

WAII, Brazil - When Japarupi Waiapi looks into the dense foliage of the Amazon rain forest, he sees the equivalent of a supermarket, pharmacy, furniture store - and that's just the beginning.

Food like coconuts, roots and bananas grows plentifully. Animals and fish are readily available for hunting, and the bark of many trees has medicinal uses.

Just in terms of different wood types, "we see thatch for our roofs, we see bows, we see arrow heads", Japarupi Waiapi, 45, said in the heart of Waiapi tribal land in eastern Brazil.