Paulo Paulino Guajajara, known also as Kwahu Tenetehar, was shot in the neck and died in the forest. His colleague, Tainaky Tenetehar, was shot […]
Fabíola Ortiz Researchers in Brazil have identified a new disease that causes severe damage to the liver, spleen and skin. The disease caused by […]
Top Brazilian experts have released a damning statement warning “genocide is underway” against uncontacted tribes. The warning follows the sacking of Bruno Pereira, the head of […]
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 […]
Monica Evans A firefighter’s account of the country’s burning dry forests When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the […]
The world is suffering from a crisis of politics. The old ideas have collapsed and the new ideas enjoying an unchallenged run almost everywhere […]
Kate Evans The Amazon’s trees, soils and mysterious earthworks tell the story of the millions who lived there before European arrival When loggers and […]
In a dramatic U-turn, the Peruvian government published a decree that restores the independence of OSINFOR, the agency in charge of inspecting and sanctioning […]
Jair Bolsonaro has started his Presidency in the worst possible way for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Taking responsibility for indigenous land demarcation away from FUNAI, the Indian...
Brazilian authorities have completed a rare ground operation to protect an uncontacted tribe from violent ranchers in a region of the Amazon with the highest rate […]
John C. Cannon The decline in deforestation between 2016 and 2017 saved emissions of the equivalent of 610 million metric tons (672 million tons) […]
A leader of an #Amazon #tribe acclaimed for its #environmental #defenders has been #killed, the latest in a series of deaths among the tribe.