Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...
COP16: is biodiversity offsetting a false solution?
Indigenous groups, ecologists, scholars, and NGOs have spoken out against the idea of biodiversity markets, emphasizing their lack of effectiveness and stressing that the protection of ecosystems should be rooted in local knowledge and community-led governance rather than top-down market solutions.
COP16 and biodiversity markets: Indigenous peoples meaningfully included?
Today, 21 October 2024, in Cali Colombia, the COP16 conference begins. This will be a platform for promoting the concept of biodiversity credits and biodiversity markets. But what do these terms mean, and what is at stake, especially for Indigenous peoples and local communities?
The Amazon in Times of War, an urgent call to action
‘The Amazon in Times of War’ is a powerful indictment of institutional violence against the Amazon and a tribute to the resilience and defiance...
Uncontacted tribes are primary conservationists, they must be protected
Members of the ‘uncontacted’ Mashco Piro tribe left several loggers dead as they defended their ancestral lands in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, revealing growing tensions between Indigenous rights, conservation efforts, and the political and economic drivers of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.
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, by Marcos Colón (Amazônia Latitude) and Katie Surma (Inside Climate News) was first published by Sumaúma on 8 August 2024. You can read...
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'.