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Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America’s biggest animal

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2011

Peru president signs indigenous rights act into law

Jeremy Hance 7 Sep 2011

World’s oldest person discovered in Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 31 Aug 2011

Indigenous protestors embark on 300-mile walk to protest Amazon road in Bolivia

Karimeh Moukaddem 21 Aug 2011

Picture of the day: horse-and-rider in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Aug 2011

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2011

Amazon tribes win support to protect 46 million ha of Amazon forest

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2011

Environmental protection agency chief: Brazil will do the same to indigenous as ‘Australians did to the Aborigines’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2011

Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its Amazon spill with rags and buckets

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2011

Picture of the day: waterfall on the endangered Xingu river

Mongabay.com 11 Jul 2011

Brazil confirms existence of new uncontacted Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2011

Last chance to see: the Amazon’s Xingu River

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2011

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2011

Brazil’s shame

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jun 2011

Peru to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve, says group

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2011

Shareholders to Chevron: company showing ‘poor judgment’ in Ecuador oil spill case

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2011

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2011

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2011

Protected areas cover 44% of the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2011

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

Jeremy Hance 6 Apr 2011

Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

World’s most controversial dam, Brazil’s Belo Monte, back on

Jeremy Hance 6 Mar 2011

Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2011

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2011

Judge suspends Brazil’s monster dam: contractor ‘imposing’ its interests

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2011

Chevron found guilty, ordered to pay $8.2 billion in epic oil contamination fight

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2011

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund

Steve Zwick Of Ecosystem Marketplace 4 Dec 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives’ territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2010

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