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Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

Murders of indigenous leaders in Brazilian Amazon hits highest level in two decades

Shanna Hanbury 14 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Controversial dam gets green light to flood a Philippine protected area

Leilani Chavez 30 Oct 2019

Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2019

15 years after tsunami, Aceh reckons with an inconsistent fisheries recovery

Sonali Prasad 23 Sep 2019

Amazon indigenous groups feel deserted by Brazil’s public health service

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 5 Aug 2019

New film reveals at-risk ‘uncontacted’ Awá tribe in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 1 Aug 2019

Sateré-Mawé

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2019

Yanomami Amazon reserve invaded by 20,000 miners; Bolsonaro fails to act

Sue Branford 12 Jul 2019

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jun 2019

Brazil’s Bolsonaro presses anti-indigenous agenda; resistance surges

Sue Branford 27 Jun 2019

Venezuela’s isolated indigenous groups under siege from miners, disease and guerrillas

Lorena Meléndez G. 24 Jun 2019

First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Great Bear Rainforest: Report

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Brazil’s Congress reverses Bolsonaro, restores Funai’s land demarcation powers

Karla Mendes 5 Jun 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019

The Sateré-Mawé move to reclaim Amazon ancestral lands from invaders

Thais Borges; Mauricio Torres; and Sue Branford 4 Jun 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

Karla Mendes 20 May 2019

Amazon fish kill at Sinop spotlights risk from 80+ Tapajós basin dams

Caio de Freitas Paes 29 Apr 2019

Brazil Supreme Court land demarcation decision sparks indigenous protest

Karla Mendes 26 Apr 2019

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Apr 2019

Bolsonaro draws battle lines in fight over Amazon indigenous lands

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 24 Apr 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019

In Bali, a village hews to unwritten rules to manage its forest

Luh De Suriyani 14 Apr 2019
Waorani women in Quito at court proceedings. Photo by Sophie Pinchetti for Amazon Frontlines.

Indigenous Waorani, protesting ‘rushed’ hearing, shut down court with song

Kimberley Brown 15 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

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