POP/ROCK - March 6, 1989

British rock star Sting, far from home in Brasilia, Brazil, has started a worldwide campaign to raise funds to enlarge South America’s largest native Indian reservation. Sting, with two Indian chiefs of the Txukahamae tribe, has created the Virgin Forest Foundation to financially support efforts to expand a reserve that now covers 6.18 million acres and is inhabited by 2,700 Indians in 17 tribes. It would be enlarged by nearly 29 million acres. The rock singer plans to travel throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan to raise funds and “ . . . to capture the imagination of the whole world.”