A summit for the future of Yasuní
A year on from the referendum in which Ecuador voted to stop oil extraction in Block 43 of Yasuní National Park, oil drilling continues. In response, the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador organised a summit to create a roadmap towards a future free from fossil fuels in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Lessons for Democracy From the Brazilian Amazon
This article, Marcos Colón (Amazônia Latitude), and Katie Surma (Inside Climate News) was first published by Sumaúma on 8 August 2024. You can read the...
Brazil: Bem Viver celebration in Pataxó territory
Celebration of 25 Years of Resistance and Good Living Forum 2024Foot of the Mountain Village, Easter Mountain, Southern Bahia August 17-20, 2024
On August 19,...
Bolivia: ecotourism as an alternative to extractivism and extinction in the...
An Amazonian Indigenous community evades extinction and finds alternatives to extractivism through developing an ecotourism project in the Bolivian jungle.
Journalism in Amazonia
Journalists in the Amazon face unique dangers, as the murders of Dom Philips and Bruno Pereira underlined. Amazônia Latitude interviewed a number of journalists working in the Amazon who stress the need for local journalism, 'committed to life'.
Ecuador: using the Rights of Nature to resist mining
Communities of the Intag Valley are engaging in new tactics, using citizen science to resist mining through legal battles. A pioneering organisation, Ecoforensic, is training a growing movement of ‘paraecologists’ to gather the ecological data needed to win legal cases against mining companies – and it’s working.
Ecuador: Last chance to save the Amazon?
Roads are the main threat to the Amazon, argues Ecuadorean Indigenous leader José Gualinga. They are the trojan horse concealing miners, loggers, land-grabbers, behind the false promise of 'development'.
Colombia racing to commit to Just Energy Transition in La Guajira?
La Guajira is poised to become the Colombian department with the strongest potential for generating renewable energy. Reducing the environmental licence processing time for renewable energy projects here could complicate issues for local Indigenous people and the environment.
‘Our environment and its defenders need the Escazú Agreement’
Ricardo Andrés Pineda Guzmán, of the Honduran Network for Escazú, reminds us why it’s crucial for Honduras to sign, ratify, and enforce the Escazú Agreement for environmental justice.
Paraguay: the Paĩ Tavyterã and the changing climate
Paĩ Tavyterã Indigenous communities are employing ancestral knowledge and advocacy against the impacts of climate change