Belo Monte: The dialogue that never happened
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, the president of CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil, has published an "open letter" in which he attacks the government's decision to push ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Banzeiro: the battle to reforest our worlds
Sue Branford reviews an astonishing book by Eliane Brum, one of Brazil's most famous journalists, who says that only by 'reforesting' our world can we learn how to halt the wholesale destruction of our planet and our species
Suriname has 93 percent forest cover; we want to keep it...
Suriname is the most forested country on earth, with 93 percent forest cover. At COP-23 in Bonn, the Suriname government pledged to work towards keeping 93 percent forest cover, forever. The Forest93 campaign is leading the way.
Murió La Chapis, mujer comprometida siempre con las comunidades indígenas
Mexico mourns the death of a veteran indigenous activist. In Spanish.
Peru: why the terms ‘Lo Andino’ and ‘terruco’ still matter
Power and wealth in Peru reside on the coast. Poverty reins in the Andes, a problem Lima elites refer to as 'Lo Andino'. These divisions fuelled Shining Path and were behind the recent removal of Pedro Castillo from the presidency.
Mexico’s Refugees: A Hidden Cost of the Drugs War
As fighting between rival drug cartels intensifies Rosenburg looks as the social dislocation which is occuring for the people who live in the worst hit areas.
PERU: Indigenous protests lead to talks
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon force oil companies to talk
Help save the Awá Indians
Survival International is launching a campaign today (25 April 2012) to save the Awá – one of Brazil's two remaining tribes of nomadic hunter gatherers. They are the world's most threatened indigenous tribe.
Brazil: Sumaúma – the year in images
On the one-year anniversary of Amazon-centred news community, Sumaúma, co-founder Jonathan Watts shares some of his favourite images from a year of enormous – and mostly positive change
Brazil: Belo Monte dam ruling reversed
While the country was absorbed in the annual Carnival, construction work began on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, after a higher court overruled an earlier judicial decision to halt the project on envrionmental and social grou