Bolivia: ecotourism as an alternative to extractivism and extinction in the...<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

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\r\n An Amazonian Indigenous community evades extinction and finds alternatives to extractivism through developing an ecotourism project in the Bolivian jungle. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Journalism in Amazonia<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n July 9, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/a><\/div> The Amazon<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n Journalists in the Amazon face unique dangers, as the murders of Dom Philips and Bruno Pereira underlined. Amaz\u00f4nia Latitude interviewed a number of journalists working in the Amazon who stress the need for local journalism, 'committed to life'. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Ecuador: Last chance to save the Amazon?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n June 21, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Roads are the main threat to the Amazon, argues Ecuadorean Indigenous leader Jos\u00e9 Gualinga. They are the trojan horse concealing miners, loggers, land-grabbers, behind the false promise of 'development'. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>\n\n\t

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KANUA: the first floating film festival to navigate the Ecuadorian Amazon<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n May 14, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Kanua, the Amazonian Floating Film Festival, brought cinema to remote communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon on a solar-powered canoe. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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A travesty: The Economist on ‘isolated Indians’<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n May 1, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n 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 <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Belo Sun Mining seeks to criminalise Amazon defenders<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n February 1, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n The Canadian gold mining company\u2019s criminal lawsuit attempts to silence and intimidate defenders of the Volta Grande do Xing\u00fa, including community leaders, Amazon Watch, and other environmental and human rights activists. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>","td_block_id":"tdi_86","td_hide_prev":true,"td_hide_next":false})); tmpObj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(block_tdi_86)); tmpObj.is_ajax_running = true; tmpObj.td_current_page = 1; tmpObj.td_filter_value = 110; var currentBlockObjSignature = JSON.stringify(tmpObj); tdLocalCache.set(currentBlockObjSignature, JSON.stringify({"td_data":"\n\n\t

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Terra do Meio 3: O rio Iriri – conserva\u00e7\u00e3o e seus...<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n June 13, 2017<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Na terceira de seis postagens, uma discuss\u00e3o sobre os problemas dos colonos (barragens, legisla\u00e7\u00e3o ambiental, grileiros) e uma visita a uma fazenda \u201cfantasma\u201d.\n\nTradu\u00e7\u00e3o: Maria... <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n June 12, 2017<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Na segunda de seis postagens, Sue Branford fala de uma \u00e1rea onde a cria\u00e7\u00e3o de uma unidade de conserva\u00e7\u00e3o ambiental coloca comunidades tradicionais sob... <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n April 27, 2016<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n The extraordinary story of Do\u00f1a Zefa's fight to remain on her land in the face of an over-literal interpretation of conservation law which may see her evicted. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>\n\n\t

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\r\n April 11, 2016<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n The colonos and beiradeiros live sustainably, but a new ecological station created around them could force these rural people from their lands. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n March 26, 2016<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Visits to Arara and Xipaya indian communities and beiradeiro river people, the conflicts, agreements and pursuit of fair treatment. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n March 23, 2016<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n A discussion with settlers about their problems: dams, conservation regulations and land thieves; and a visit to a 'ghost' ranch. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>","td_block_id":"tdi_86","td_hide_prev":true,"td_hide_next":false})); tmpObj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(block_tdi_86)); tmpObj.is_ajax_running = true; tmpObj.td_current_page = 1; tmpObj.td_filter_value = 168; var currentBlockObjSignature = JSON.stringify(tmpObj); tdLocalCache.set(currentBlockObjSignature, JSON.stringify({"td_data":"\n\n\t

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Hope for Amazon river dolphin?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n October 17, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n A moratorium on fishing the piracatinga catfish in the Brazilian Amazon was extended for the third time since its introduction in 2014. There\u2019s now no expiry date for the ban, although the ministries of environment and fishing have a period of three years to reevaluate it.\n\nThe moratorium was instituted to protect the pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), known locally as the boto. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Brazil: Suma\u00fama – the year in images<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n September 19, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n On the one-year anniversary of Amazon-centred news community, Suma\u00fama, co-founder Jonathan Watts shares some of his favourite images from a year of enormous \u2013 and mostly positive change <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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The Amazon Summit: some progress; contradictions remain<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n August 11, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n The Amazon Summit in Bel\u00e9m, 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. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>\n\n\t

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The Amazon: is this the Third World War?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n September 6, 2022<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/a><\/div> The Amazon<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n What is happening in the Amazon is a war -- against the rainforest, its original inhabitants, and also against the rest of the world. Perhaps this is the Third World War, the war to end all wars? <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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The Amazon: Learning for a different future<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n May 12, 2022<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/div> The Amazon<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n A webinar about ways of teaching nad learning about the future of the Amazon, held in the Cabelo Seco community, Marab\u00e1, Par\u00e1, Brazil <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Voices of Latin America Webinar Series: The Rights of Nature and...<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n April 27, 2021<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n The Latin America Bureau (LAB) invites you to the third instalment of our Voices of Latin America webinar series: The Rights of Nature and Indigenous Peoples. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>","td_block_id":"tdi_86","td_hide_prev":true,"td_hide_next":false})); tmpObj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(block_tdi_86)); tmpObj.is_ajax_running = true; tmpObj.td_current_page = 1; tmpObj.td_filter_value = 155; var currentBlockObjSignature = JSON.stringify(tmpObj); tdLocalCache.set(currentBlockObjSignature, JSON.stringify({"td_data":"\n\n\t

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Brazil: Bem Viver celebration in Patax\u00f3 territory<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n August 7, 2024<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/a><\/div> Environment<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \nCelebration of 25 Years of Resistance and Good Living Forum 2024Foot of the Mountain Village, Easter Mountain, Southern Bahia August 17-20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn August 19,... <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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The Amazon: rivers of life, circles of learning 3<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n September 15, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/a><\/div> Black & Afro-Latin<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n In the last of three articles, Dan Baron continues his reliving of the Backyard Drums as it evolves into the AfroRaiz Collective, coordinators of the Rios de Encontro community arts education project based in Cabelo Seco, the 'poor' founding village of Marab\u00e1, Par\u00e1, in the Brazilian Brazil. Tensions flare among the young people, as they \u2018learn to listen: to learn, rather than to gossip and slash the wings of those who want to fly.\u2019 <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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The Amazon: rivers of life, circles of learning 1<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n September 5, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n First of a three-part series in which Dan Baron traces the evolution of the poor children from Cabelo Seco, Marab\u00e1, Par\u00e1, into a collective of recognized Amazonian artists and leaders of their community. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>\n\n\t

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The Amazon: rivers of life, circles of learning 2<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n September 5, 2023<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n In the second of three articles, Dan Baron continues his review of the eco-cultural project he has been coordinating in the Brazilian Amazon with young people from Marab\u00e1, Par\u00e1, in the Brazilian Amazon since 2009.\n\nHe revisits the history of the Backyard Drums group as it becomes the collective pulse of the the over-arching Rios de Encontro project. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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The Amazon: Learning for a different future<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n May 12, 2022<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/div> The Amazon<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n A webinar about ways of teaching nad learning about the future of the Amazon, held in the Cabelo Seco community, Marab\u00e1, Par\u00e1, Brazil <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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Brazil: a gift of honey<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

\r\n January 20, 2022<\/time><\/span> 0<\/a><\/span> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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<\/a><\/div> Indigenous Peoples<\/a> <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n At the Monument to 500 Years of Resistance by the Indigneous Peoples of Brazil, Braga, a Patax\u00f3 chief, imagines a gift of honey for senators as they debate PL490, which threatens indigenous land rights. It is a gift 'to disarm the media, touch the people, enchant the world'. <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \n\t<\/div> <\/div>","td_block_id":"tdi_86","td_hide_prev":true,"td_hide_next":false}));

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Bolivia: ecotourism as an alternative to extractivism and extinction in the...

July 25, 2024 0

Bolivia

An Amazonian Indigenous community evades extinction and finds alternatives to extractivism through developing an ecotourism project in the Bolivian jungle.

Journalism in Amazonia

July 9, 2024 0

The Amazon

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?

June 21, 2024 0

Environment

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

May 14, 2024 0

Environmental Defenders

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’

May 1, 2024 0

Indigenous Peoples

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

Belo Sun Mining seeks to criminalise Amazon defenders

February 1, 2024 0

Environmental Defenders

The Canadian gold mining company’s criminal lawsuit attempts to silence and intimidate defenders of the Volta Grande do Xingú, including community leaders, Amazon Watch, and other environmental and human rights activists.

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-100vw + 100%) / 2); } .tdm_block_text_image.tdm-text-image-extend-img.tdm-flip-yes { margin-right: 0; margin-left: calc((-100vw + 100%) / 2); } .tdm_block_text_image.tdm-text-image-extend-img.tdm-flip-yes .tdm-col-img { text-align: right; } }@media (max-width: 767px) { .tdm_block_text_image .tdm-col-img { margin-top: 36px; } .tdm_block_text_image.tdm-flip-yes .tdm-col-img { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 15px; } } About the author Marcos Colón is an academic, journalist, and filmmaker. His articles have been featured in the Jornal Público, Folha de São Paulo, Havard Review of Latin America, and El País. He is founder of online journalism platform Amazônia Latitude and director of documentary films 'Beyond Fordlandia' and 'Stepping Softly on the Earth'. Colón is the Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on Brazilian literary and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on the Amazon, Indigenous studies, and representations of natureculture in documentary film and world cinema. We are watching this genuine attack on a part of the world where for thousands of years people have developed ways of living inside the forest in sufficient equilibrium to produce culture and life. In the last two or three centuries it has received new inhabitants, besides the Indigenous peoples – it received colonisers, who constructed a certain humanity, learning to live within the forest. This gathering of peoples, the Indigenous and those that went there in the last two to three hundred years, makes up a large group of people living in the Amazonian forest – in the Brazilian Amazon as well as the Amazon of our neighbours Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. All of the Amazon basin, which affects Brazil’s neighbouring nations, is now shaken by this violence on the forest, but it hides another violence, which is the production of poverty, uprooting people, tearing them away from the places where they always lived supported by the forests. AILTON KRENAK Indigenous leader and author of ‘Ideas to Postpone the End of the World’ Praise for ‘The Amazon in Times of War’  Blighted by violence since the arrival of the colonizers, the Amazon is crying out for help. Marcos Colón’s book is an urgent call for the action and courage needed to free the forest from plunder and pillage. This is the greatest challenge of our generation. Cristina Serra Brazilian journalist and Author of ‘Tragédia em Mariana: A História do Maior Desastre Ambiental do Brasil’. ~ Colón, through his compelling images and testimonials from the Amazonian peoples, has exposed to humanity the tragedy of the Amazon’s destruction at the hands of the most nefarious interests of logging companies and garimpeiros, associated with multinational corporations and the blind pursuits of global capitalism. Enrique Leff National Autonomous University of Mexico ~ Colón offers a politically engaged ecological reading of some of the most pressing issues of our time: ancestral knowledge, territory, climate, and the devastating impacts of colonialism and capitalism in one of the world’s most important regions. Jessica Carey-Webb Assistant professor, University of New Mexico; author of ‘Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier’ ~ Thoughtful and thoroughly reported, The Amazon in Times of War is a must-read for all who care about the future of the rainforest — and planet Earth. Scott Wallace Author of ‘The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazons Last Uncontacted Tribes’ ~ These essays are fresh and heartfelt and together are a powerful call for humanity to heed the voices of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon, to learn from them, and to act now. Fiona Watson Campaigns Director, Survival International ~ The Amazon has finally become political news. This outstanding collection shows why. Mark Harris Professor and Head of School, Humanities, University of Adelaide; Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of St Andrews; Author of ‘Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798–1840’ ~ Stories from Marcos Colón The undeclared project to silence the Amazon August 21, 2024 0 Brazil 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 August 8, 2024 0 Brazil 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... Eliane Brum: contemplating the Amazon, the centre of the world, through... March 18, 2024 0 The Amazon In an extraordinary interview, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum explains how language is fundamental to the life of the Amazon and its peoples Ailton Krenak: Samba to portray our vision February 27, 2024 0 Indigenous Peoples Brazilian Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak is made a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Meanwhile Samba schools at Carnival gave voice to Indigenous and Black peoples Indigenous peoples cannot be solely responsible January 10, 2024 0 Climate change & carbon trading Marcos Colón argues that Indigenous peoples cannot be made solely responsible for dealing with climate change and saving our planet. All of us must share that responsibility. Two men missing in The Amazon ‘wild-west’ June 10, 2022 0 Brazil The Javari reserve in Amazonas, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared, is a wild-west border region with multiple problems of drug trafficking, smuggling and land grabbing. Latin America BureauNews, analysis and information on Latin America, its people, politics and society. LAB is an independent charitable organisation based in London providing news, analysis and information on Latin America, its people, politics and society. © Latin America Bureau Facebook Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube Support LAB Contact us: contactlab@lab.org.uk This website uses cookies to give you the best experience. By continuing to browse this website, you are consenting to their use.CloseDonate now