Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive
Last Friday, eighty Munduruku warriors — demanding an apology for destruction of two sacred sites — tried to occupy an Amazon dam; they were met by armed police.
Articles by Sue Branford with Fernanda Moreira and Maurício Torres
Special series
Endangered environmentalists
- Murder of activist in India highlights growing risk to environmental defenders
- Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017
- Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company
Indonesias forest guardians
- Papuan chef Charles Toto serves up sustainability and environmental protection in a platter
- In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers
- Faith in the forest helps Indonesia’s Dayaks keep plantations, loggers at bay
Amazon infrastructure
- Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)
- Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)
- Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier
Asian rhinos
- In a rhino stronghold, indigenous wood-carvers cut through stereotypes
- Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program
- The rhino reckoning
