Tag: Amazon

Deforestation is plummeting in the Amazon rainforest – not only in Brazil, but also in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Here’s why.

This year’s Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) brought 6,000 Indigenous people to Brasilia to demand recognition of their land rights.

The Peruvian Amazon is increasingly under threat from climate change and deforestation. Meet the local non-profit working to restore it.

Tropical forest archaeologists are digging up new learnings from ancient Amazon Indigenous civilizations that can inform modern law.

A lawyer speaks on the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, calling attention to the dangers of environmental defense.

Indigenous communities have sustainably managed Amazon land for centuries. Now, it should inform agricultural expansion in the future.

GLF Amazonia Day 3 highlights need to link Amazonian ecological and social systems in policy.

Most flora and fauna species face habitat loss due to fires in the Amazon, but some - like primates - are particularly affected.

Day 2 of GLF Amazonia looks at links between supply chains and livelihoods of Amazonian peoples

Experts stress perils of deforestation, fire and climate change - and hopes of land management - for the tipping point of the Amazon.

A study shows that the Indigenous Poyanawa people are good stewards of their land - and can benefit from its carbon credits.

Activist and leader Selma Dealdina shares injustices against Brazil’s Afro-descendant communities.

The Amazon is the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest – but deforestation could push it past a climate tipping point by 2040.

The key to financing the Amazon biome’s future survival? Creativity, says Leonardo Letelier, Amazon finance expert and founder of SITAWI.

"Struggle for Life" Indigenous movement, the largest in Brazilian history, sees thousands fight for land claims predating constitution.