Aid provided for Guarani-Kaiowá
Brazilian partners in the Indigenous Brazil Violated project, led by Dr Jones Goettert, collected food and cleaning/sanitizing products and delivered them to Guarani-Kaiowá communities....
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region...
Indigenous Peoples, Land-based Disputes and Strategies of Socio-spatial Resistance at Agricultural...
ABSTRACT: Frontiers of national development and agricultural expansion constitute spaces of intense interaction, disputes and contestation. The Brazilian economy continues to largely rely on...
Amazonia in 5 minutes
the first episode of a weekly podcast, “Amazonia in Five Minutes,” presented by Jessica Carey-Webb. The podcast highlights publications from Amazonia Latitude’s magazine as well as cultural tips, in a dynamic and melodic format, to the tune of local rhythms.
Virus toll of Indigenous elders is destroying history
COVID-19 kills the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, the poor and vulnerable. It is now doing so in the Brazilian Amazon where the...
The Amazon: loggers attack environment officials
by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford
This article was first published by Mongabay on 27 May. You can read the original here.
In April an official...
The Amazon: deregulation and deforestation fuel the pandemic
This article by Marcos Colón, Luise de Camões Lima Boaventura, and Erik Jennings was edited by LAB. The authors’ original text (in Portuguese) can...
Quilombos at risk – will help arrive?
by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford
The Boa Vista Quilombo in Oriximiná, Pará state, is like many Brazilian quilombola communities. Quilombolas are Afro-Brazilian runaway slave...
Brazil’s Yanomami people: silence, devastation and fear
This article was first published in Portuguese by Público. It has been translated for LAB by Theo Bradford and edited by Mike Gatehouse
There was...
Uncontacted tribes could be exterminated by Covid-19
This article was first published on 6 April 2020 by Newsweek. You can read the original article here.
The COVID-19 pandemic could “wipe out”...
