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Leonardo DiCaprio invests in company, donates shares to Amazon indigenous organization

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2016

Conventional survey techniques underestimate Amazon biodiversity: report

Mike Gaworecki 25 Apr 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

Toddler’s murder in Brazil unveils widespread violence against country’s indigenous

Carolina Torres 16 Mar 2016

An indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

Yaguas National Park, another great attempt at conservation in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Jan 2016

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Creating a commons: sustainable fishing and hunting in the Colombian Amazon

David Barton Bray 23 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Deforestation and death threats: activist and family threatened in Peru

John Cannon 24 Nov 2015

To tackle climate change cheaply, first secure indigenous forest rights

Sandra Cuffe 17 Nov 2015

‘A critical gift’: Peru rejoices as a new national park is born

Apoorva Joshi, Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2015
Sierra del Divisor's famed cone. Photo by Diego Pérez / El Taller.pe

Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015
In the last 25 years, that land has been continuously trespassed by illegal loggers – a threat not only to the forest itself, but to the Indians, victims of life threats, attempts and murders. Tired of waiting for the Brazilian government to take action even after several reports, the Ka’apor people developed an independent project to monitor and cast out trespassers from their land. After a request for help, Greenpeace joined the Ka’apor to boost that surveillance plan with the aid of technology, like trackers and trap cams, which could be installed by the Ka’apor themselves. Fronteira da Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, do povo Ka’apor, com o avanço do desmatamento em áreas vizinhas, no estado do Maranhão. Distribuída em cerca de 530 mil hectares, a Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, do povo Ka’apor, representa uma das últimas extensões de floresta amazônica no Maranhão. Nos últimos 25 anos, esse território tem sido continuamente invadido por madeireiros ilegais, que representam não apenas uma ameaça à floresta, mas também aos índios, vítimas frequentes de ameaças, assassinatos e atentados contra as suas lideranças. Cansados de esperar por uma atitude das autoridades brasileiras depois de inúmeras denúncias, os Ka’apor desenvolveram um projeto independente de monitoramento para expulsar os invasores de suas terras. Atendendo a um pedido de ajuda desse povo o Greenpeace auxiliou o povo Ka’apor a agregar a esse sistema de autovigilância o uso de tecnologias, como rastreadores e trap cams, que poderiam ser implementadas pelos próprios indígenas e fornecer evidências mais contundentes e pressionar ainda mais o governo brasileiro. Agosto de 2015.

Indigenous group, Greenpeace partner to track illegal logging in the Amazon

Caleb O'Brien 26 Sep 2015

More than 40 tourists kidnapped – then freed – by indigenous community that demands construction of a freeway in Madre de Dios

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Sep 2015

Big Oil is the law on Waorani ancestral lands

Veronica Goyzueta 13 Aug 2015

David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win

Saul Elbein 27 Jul 2015

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