Renowned Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, along with Greta Thunberg, Aminatou Haidar and Guo Jianmei won this year’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Davi led his people’s 20-year campaign to protect their Amazonian territory. Combined with the Yanomami territory in Venezuela, it is the largest area of rainforest under indigenous control anywhere in… Continue reading Davi Yanomami, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” wins “Alternative Nobel Prize”