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A frontline view of the fight against illegal mining in Yanomami territory

Rubens Valente, Agência Pública 2 May 2023
(Left to right) Minister of State for Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger, Wellington Dias, Minister of State for Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Wafunai, Joênia Pichan, during the 19th edition of Camp Terra Livre (ATL), 2023. Image by Palácio do Planalto (Brazil presidential palace) via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Brazil’s President Lula recognizes six Indigenous lands, and says more to come

Jenny Gonzales 1 May 2023

‘I’ll keep fighting’: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku

Sarah Brown 27 Apr 2023
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Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023
Tanzania protest Ngorongoro

Indigenous Maasai ask the United Nations to intervene on reported human rights abuses

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023

‘Don’t buy Brazilian gold’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Sam Cowie 20 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023

Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires, study suggests

Jenny Gonzales 11 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023
The banks of the Madeira River in the municipality of Porto Velho

‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie, Avener Prado 6 Apr 2023

Expansion of Mennonite farmland in Bolivia encroaches on Indigenous land

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Apr 2023
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 29 Mar 2023

Indigenous communities and Mennonite colonies clash in Colombia

Natalia Brito 29 Mar 2023

Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 24 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Mar 2023
Illegal mining areas inside Yanomami land near the Mucajaí River.

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Sean Mowbray 16 Mar 2023

Most of ‘top ten’ hotspots for jaguar conservation are in Brazil’s Indigenous territories

Liz Kimbrough 10 Mar 2023
Part of a Yanomami community.

Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon

André Schröder 28 Feb 2023
Cows in Terra do Meio Ecological Station.

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

Ana Ionova 23 Feb 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon.

The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Feb 2023

US pledges Amazon Fund donation, renewing hope for the rainforest

Sarah Brown 13 Feb 2023
Repórter Brasil revealed that JBS, the Brazilian beef giant, had bought cattle raised in illegally deforested areas by indirect suppliers.Image courtesy of JBS.

JBS is accused of misleading investors with suspicious green bonds

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Feb 2023
Drone view of a salmon farm.

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Jan 2023
An overflight conducted by Greenpeace and Instituto Socioambiental in December 2022 spotted four excavators near an illegal road recently discovered inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory, one of the most endangered areas of Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction

Dimitri Selibas 26 Jan 2023
Mennonites in the municipality of Bacalar.

Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 26 Jan 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an Indigenous hospital and the Indigenous health support house in Boa Vista.

Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis

Sarah Brown 25 Jan 2023

Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jan 2023

Q&A: Climatologist Carlos Nobre’s dream of an Amazon Institute of Technology

Jaqueline Sordi 16 Jan 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022

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