Brazil poses challenge for Biden’s climate policy
President Biden’s climate summit, starting on 22 April, World Earth Day, will see him aiming to bring Brazil’s leader Jair Bolsonaro into line.
Brazilian Amazon: first Covid-19 case among indigenous people
A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous
woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus,
according to the federal government’s body in charge of health...
Ecuador: I’m a defender of the forest, which gives us life,...
The struggle of an indigenous Amazonian people in defence of their rights and the land on which they live, in Sarayaku, Ecuador -- against...
Bolsonaro’s Brazil 2020: the march of the miners
President Michel Temer issued a presidential decree in 2017 to open up the vast 4.6 million hectare (17,800 square mile) RENCA preserve...
The Amazon: halt illegal cattle farms
Amnesty international has launched a new report into illegal cattle farming in the Brazilian Amazon.Cattle farming is the main driver of illegal land seizures...
Amazon indigenous group recovers sacred urns
In 2013, during the building of the Teles Pires dam in the Brazilian Amazon, the Teles Pires Hydroelectric Company (CHTP) dynamited Karobixexe...
Dead Water: Brazilian communities affected by hydroelectric dams
Photographer from Minas Gerais launches book with photos and stories of communities affected by hydroelectric dam. This review of an exhibition of photographs was...
Who will save Yasuní?
Ecuadorians go to the polls on 20 August 2023, to elect both a new president and 137 legislators for the country's National Assembly. They will also be given the choice to vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in a referendum, where a ‘Yes’ vote will shut down all oil extraction in Yasuní National Park.
The Amazon Summit: some progress; contradictions remain
The Amazon Summit in Belém, Brazil, brought together 8 out of the 9 countries of the Amazon Basin. There were agreements, calls for western countries to share the burden of conserving the forest. But no explicit target on halting deforestation and no willingness to halt oil extraction.
The Amazon: the Sound of the Jaguar’s Roar
The story of Miranha and Juri, two indigenous children kidnapped from their people by German scientists 200 years ago, told in novel form by award-winning Brazilian author Micheliny Berunschk