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Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019

Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in war and in peace

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Aug 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018
The traditional Caiçara canoe is in the process of becoming part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Brazilian culture. But building the canoes is becoming increasingly difficult due to bureaucratic setbacks to obtain the wood. Courtesty personal collection of Mario Gato and Ana Carolina Barbosa.

For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition

Ignacio Amigo 25 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson and Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Faith in the forest helps Indonesia’s Dayaks keep plantations, loggers at bay

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 8 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Lucy EJ Woods 12 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Dec 2017

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

Alliance of the Bear: Native groups stymie Trump, tar sands pipelines

Saul Elbein 16 Nov 2017

Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

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