The Amazon

'It is difficult to come across a book as enlightening, far-reaching and appropriate as the Amazon in Times of War in accessing the complexity...

The Indigenous territory faced a severe humanitarian and environmental crisis with the invasion of around 20,000 illegal miners. Trained youths can now act as multipliers of drone monitoring and watch the land against new invasions.

As the 20th anniversary of the Amazon defender Sister Dorothy Strang, approached, LAB partner Agência Pública spoke to Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva. We asked the Minister about the row sparked by Petrobras’ ambition to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon. The issue resurfaced this week after President Lula signalled, in private and in public, that the licence will be granted soon.

Visions from the Amazon aims to offer a glimpse of how the Amazon is not a singular entity but a region of immense diversity shaped by a complex interplay of legal, hydrological, geological, and ecological boundaries,. Thus, the artists and artworks featured in this exhibition are linked to different communities and regions of the Amazon in Brazil, offering varied perspectives that reflect both the cultural vibrancy of the region and the pressing challenges it faces today.

El «tío COVID», un hombre que sobrevivió tras ser enterrado en un cementerio colectivo secreto de Iquitos se ha convertido en un símbolo macabro del desastre en que se vio sumida la ciudad de Iquitos, en la Amazonía peruana, donde el 70% de los habitantes habían sido infectados por el COVID-19 en julio de 2020. Un sistema sanitario decrépito, una aguda falta de oxígeno médico, la pobreza, la corrupción de las élites locales y el poder de las bandas criminales conspiraron para agravar esta catástrofe.

'Uncle Covid', a man who survived interment at a secret mass-burial site in Iquitos, has become a macabre symbol of the disaster that engulfed the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos, where 70 per cent of the inhabitants had been infected with Covid-19 by July 2020. A decrepit health system, an acute lack of medical oxygen, poverty, the corruption of local elites and the power of criminal gangs conspired to aggravate this catastrophe.

As the world watches the United States gear up for another presidential election, the potential re-election of Donald Trump raises questions not only about the future of American democracy but also about the fate of global environmental policies.

With the number of fires in the Amazon 80 per cent higher than in 2023, has the rainforest reached its tipping point, after which it will became savannah and desert with calamitous implications for climate, rainfall and food across the entire planet?

‘The Amazon in Times of War’ is a powerful indictment of institutional violence against the Amazon and a tribute to the resilience and defiance...

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.