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Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020
Mark Plotkin and Yaloefuh in Suriname in 1982. Courtesy of Mark Plotkin.

Everything you need to know about the Amazon rainforest: an interview with Mark Plotkin

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2020

Flooding devastates Ecuador’s indigenous communities in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 May 2020
Kanamari indigenous child in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas state, one of the most vulnerable indigenous reserves to COVID-19, according to an analysis by the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), a Brazilian NGO. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis

Ignacio Amigo 29 Apr 2020

In famed Chico Mendes reserve, Brazil nut harvesters fight to save the forest

Débora Pinto 22 Apr 2020
IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020
Celebration of the Ashaninka people in the Kampa of the Amônia River Indigenous Reserve, by the Peruvian border. Image by Arison Jardim/The Ashaninka of the Amônia River Association.

$3 million and an official apology: Brazil’s Ashaninka get unprecedented compensation for deforestation on their land

Naira Hofmeister 16 Apr 2020

Brazilian indigenous chiefs act to halt illegal logging in historical landmark area

Spensy Pimentel 16 Apr 2020

Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic: Experts

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 15 Apr 2020

Using satellites to alert an Amazonian indigenous community of coca encroachment (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2020

Amazonian leader takes Indigenous pepper to the Brazilian market and teaches how to live a good life

Débora Menezes 13 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020

Shamans in the city: Brazil clinic offers traditional Amazonian treatments

Débora Menezes 9 Apr 2020

Brazilian government office responds to Fearnside’s BR-319 oil & gas commentary

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 8 Apr 2020

Canada’s Belo Sun hits legal hurdles in bid to mine indigenous land in Brazil

Maurício Angelo 7 Apr 2020
Waimiri-Atroari indigenous village, where the Kinja indigenous people live in the northernmost state of Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon. A federal judge has ordered government websites to publish a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30 days as part of their right of response to racist rhetoric by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Image by Maiká Schwade/CPT Amazonas

Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective

Shanna Hanbury 7 Apr 2020
Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November 2019. Image reproduced from his Facebook profile. 

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

Sam Cowie 3 Apr 2020
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image by heath department of Santo Antônio do Içá.

First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Apr 2020

Anglo American seeking to mine on indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon

Maurício Angelo 31 Mar 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

BR-319 illegal side road threatens Amazon protected area, indigenous land (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Maryane B. T. de Andrade 27 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Sue Branford 5 Mar 2020

Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maurício Angelo 26 Feb 2020

Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick

Débora Pinto 18 Feb 2020

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Justin Catanoso 17 Feb 2020

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