‘Open Fire’ exhibition in UK
In September 2022, LAB described a new photo exhibition, created by the Brazilian photographer and film-maker Marilene Cardoso Ribeiro.
Now that exhibition has come to...
The Amazon: Journey to the centre of the fire
Photojournalist Edmar Barros travelled through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon, Amacro, on the border with Acre and Rondônia, to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought.
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.
The undeclared project to silence the Amazon
In the early hours of Monday August 12, silence fell on the Amazon. Márcio Souza, writer, dramatist, director, novelist, 'emperor of the Amazon', passed...
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...
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: 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'.
KANUA: the first floating film festival to navigate the Ecuadorian Amazon
Kanua, the Amazonian Floating Film Festival, brought cinema to remote communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon on a solar-powered canoe.
A travesty: The Economist on ‘isolated Indians’
An article in The Economist seriously misrepresents the Indigenous people affected by the Camisea drilling project for gas in the Peruvian Amazon. It reads like corporate PR for Argentine-Dutch oil consortium PlusPetrol