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Women in Putumayo turn to fish farming and away from the coca industry
Iñigo Alexander
28 Nov 2024
Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage
Sarah Brown
19 Aug 2024
Etelvina Ramos: From coca farmer to opponent of the illegal crop
Diana María Pachón
26 Apr 2024
Ecuador’s first Indigenous guard led by Kichwa women: Interview with María José Andrade Cerda
Astrid Arellano
23 Apr 2024
Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil
Carla Ruas
17 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand
Laila Abu Shihab Vergara
8 Apr 2024
Maydany Salcedo: the environmental defender who catches the ire of armed groups
Maria Fernanda Lizcano
1 Apr 2024
Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains
Natalia Pedraza Bravo
19 Mar 2024
Amazon women create sweet business success with wild, vitamin-C packed fruit
Maria Fernanda Lizcano
9 Nov 2023
Brazil’s Indigenous women march again for the rights of their people and lives
Inaê Guion
5 Oct 2023
Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing
Astrid Arellano
20 Apr 2023
Brazilian Indigenous anthropologists turn the tables from ‘objects of study’ to active voices
Max Baring
20 Feb 2023
In Brazil’s Amazon, traditional midwives push for greater recognition
Luís Patriani
10 Aug 2022
For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle
Ana Cristina Alvarado, Diego Cazar Baquero
16 Jun 2022
“Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga
Astrid Arellano
6 May 2022
A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters
Ronaldo Ribeiro | Letícia Klein | Kevin Damasio | Laura Kurtzberg (Ambiental Media)
5 May 2022
Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil
Lais Modelli
28 Apr 2022
Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’
Ana Cristina Basantes
5 Jan 2022
Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory
Cristina Fernández Aguilar
10 Dec 2021
The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon
Mike DiGirolamo
26 Aug 2021
The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon
Gloria Alvitres
13 Aug 2021
Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels
Nicolás Bustamante Hernández
1 Jul 2021
In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice
Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo
18 Dec 2020
Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words
Carol Sánchez
17 Dec 2020
In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest
Maria Fernanda Lizcano
16 Dec 2020
‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle
Mayuri Castro
13 Dec 2020
TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader
Kimberley Brown
24 Sep 2020
Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon’s largest fish also empowers women
Claudia Geib
31 Aug 2020
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand
Rosamaria Loures, Sarah Sax
21 Aug 2020
Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin
JoAnna Haugen
12 May 2020
Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo
Nicolás Bustamante Hernández
11 May 2020
Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration
Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nádia Pontes
18 Dec 2019
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