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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

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford with Fernanda Moreira and Maurício Torres 17 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, with additional reporting by Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining

Jenny Gonzales 27 Sep 2017

Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Indigenous victory: Brazil’s Temer decrees 1.2 million Amazon reserve

Sue Branford 18 Sep 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Pygmy death shows need for land reform, group says

Genevieve Belmaker 15 Sep 2017

Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

Max Nathanson 5 Sep 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2017
Mamo Lorenzo with shaman Pachankachay in the Talking Circle (left to right). Valle de Saquenzipa, 2014. Photo courtesy of Cuvan Murillo Escobar

Colombian shamans want to restore traditional power via national network

Maximo Anderson 14 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Brazil’s indigenous Munduruku occupy dam site, halt construction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Jul 2017

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