Colombia has recognised the autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon through a new decree - described as the most important step for Amazon indigenous rights in 30 years. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… thing that has happened to the indigenous Amazonians in 30 years' Brendan Montague | 12th April 2018 News Amazon Indigenous Peoples Human Rights … autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon through a new decree - described as the …
Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.
… Agroforestry in the Amazon Natasha Foote | 17th October 2019 News Amazon Agroforestry Agriculture Bolsonaro … offered desperately needed relief for the Amazon, according to new data from Brazil’s …
Massacres like that reported to have taken place recently in the Amazon are sadly neither new nor uncommon. For uncontacted tribal peoples, the colonial era continues, as bandits and extractive industries, abetted by a corrupt government, inflict violence and plunder on them. LEWIS EVANS puts this brutality into context, and examines potential solutions.
… people are still being massacred in the Amazon Lewis Evans | 15th November 2017 Comment Indigenous Peoples Amazon Brazil Human Rights Massacre 405710.jpg … reported to have taken place recently in the Amazon are sadly neither new nor uncommon. For …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… mining and militarization in the Ecuadorian Amazon Jake Ling Intercontinental Cry | 24th … military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, … Shuar Federation (FISCH) in the Ecuadorian Amazon and arbitrarily detained its president, …
Brazil's new neoliberal government is intent on building a massive new dam deep in the Amazon rainforest on the on the Tapajós river, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson, obliterating the indigenous territory of the Munduruku people in defiance of their constitutional rights.
… Brazil's indigenous peoples fight Amazon dams threat Helle Abelvik-Lawson | 1st … on building a massive new dam deep in the Amazon rainforest on the on the Tapajós river, … Tapajós, the fourth-largest tributary of the Amazon in Brazil, lies a village of around 130 …
Peru's Congress may soon approve a road through remote rainforest which is home to the country's last uncontacted tribes. The link to the Inter-Oceanic highway would open the area up to land grabs, wood cutting and gold mining, and expose vulnerable indigenous people to diseases to which they have no immunity.
… Amazon: rainforest road threatens Peru's last … uncontacted tribes in the heartland of the ' Amazon Uncontacted Frontier ', a wide crescent … road, which would run through 270 km of the Amazon's most biodiverse and sensitive …
Impunity reigns in the Amazon, write Joe Sandler Clarke & Sam Cowie, and the indigenous peoples of the forest are the big losers as they suffer repeated killings and land grabs. Big cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories and murder any who resist.
… land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon Joe Sandler Clarke Sam Cowie Greenpeace … brazil-indians-cut.jpg Impunity reigns in the Amazon, write Joe Sandler Clarke & Sam Cowie, … dispute in Mato Grosso state, in the Amazon. Jeane Bellini, national coordinator of …
The Ecuadorian government is in the process of auctioning off eight million acres of largely virgin rainforest to oil companies.
… from a remote part of Ecuador’s southern Amazon. A delegation has travelled to the … wrought untold damage in Ecuador’s northern Amazon and around the world. Instead of seeing … territories. From deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Kawsak Sacha Declaration was borne …
Europe's resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening.
… 2020 News Editor’s Picks Deforestation Brazil Amazon EU Agriculture Imports International … opportunity to simplify regulations in the Amazon while media attention is elsewhere. Violation Deforestation in the Amazon rose by 64 percent in April compared to …
In law, the Shuar Arutam People of Ecuador's Amazon control their ancestral forests. But the government has allocated more than 38% of their territory to large-scale mining, and a gigantic hydroelectric dam is about to be built. Peaceful resistance has been met with a violent military occupation against a People whose only demand, set out in this Open Letter, is peace and justice.
… In law, the Shuar Arutam People of Ecuador's Amazon control their ancestral forests. But … and sisters, to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Andes, to the men and women of … of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) on behalf of the Governing …
We need to fundamentally overhaul our agriculture and forestry practices.
… ramifications The devastating fires in the Amazon that captured the world’s attention in … clear land for crops, sent vast swaths of the Amazon up in smoke - not only harming local … resources particularly evident now in the Amazon crisis where indigenous land custodians …
Soya is taking over the vegan food scene. But production surpasses vegan demand. There must be another culprit which is driving soya's destructive grip.
… Agriculture Animal Rights Climate Change Amazon Rainforest Soya Animal Feed Animal Farming Amazon Forest Climate Roundtable On …
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic.
… it does this is to include CO 2 emissions for Amazon deforestation. These are a matter of … expansion of the industry, not production. If Amazon deforestation were halted tomorrow, we … emissions, or 12 per cent if you discount Amazon soya as well. Another fifth of the …
Jag-Wah, the new environmental hero from Greenpeace, comes alive in bold animations to expose the truth about industrial animal farming and rainforest annihilation.
… the climate. Biodiverse environments such as Amazon rainforests absorb carbon dioxide in … point’, which describes a situation where the Amazon can no longer generate enough rain to …
Natural systems can teach us how to repair the damage caused by large-scale meat consumption, pollution and agribusiness.
… interconnected web of relationships of the Amazon rainforest took some millions of years … litres daily - a number that exceeds the Amazon river's water flow by 3 billion litres. …
A new movement has been launched at COP21 in Paris to give legal effect to the rights of nature and communities, writes Hal Rhoades, providing effective protection against the gross environmental damage and human rights violations that accompany extractive industries from mining to oil development and agri-business projects, and which underlie climate change.
… the Sami to Shuar territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Linda Sheehan, Executive Director of …
'Conservation' is destroying those who've nurtured their surroundings for timeless generations, writes Stephen Corry - the Indigenous Peoples who have actually fashioned those precious places that we now mistake as 'natural'. It's time for a new conservation ethic that recognizes them as senior partners - not as 'squatters'' and 'poachers' to be evicted and criminalized.
… to stop indigenous people destroying the Amazon rainforest. Equally bizarre, it claimed …
As Peru prepares to host UN climate talks, Global Witness exposes the murder of Peruvian eco-defenders - 57 killed since 2002, including indigenous leaders protecting their forests from illegal logging ignored by police and Government.
… fellow Ashéninka leaders from the Peruvian Amazon. "The murders of Edwin Chota and his …
On the one side, the Guarani people and the entire panoply of international and Brazilian law asserting the rights of indigenous peoples to their lives, lands, and way of life. Against them, the entrenched economic and political power of farmers, ranchers, loggers and others exploiting the wealth of the Guarani's soils, forests and waters. Right now the power of money is winning every time. Only with international pressure can the Guarani emerge victorious.
… Yanomami indigenous territory in the northern Amazon. It is an area the size of Switzerland … the situation facing the Awá people from the Amazon's eastern fringe. And last year, …
Though the Earth loses forests at an alarming rate, the EU has yet to take decisive action against the most severe causes of deforestation. The EU must now act swiftly to ensure its consumption no longer drives forest destruction, writes SÉBASTIEN RISSO
… including the Congo Basin and the Brazilian Amazon , where the ever-increasing demand for …
The NFU’s goal for farming to reach net zero emissions should be welcomed - but their plan to achieve this is worrying and ignores the elephant in the room.
… is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon . NFU response Despite this stark …