Over the past 20 years, the rights of traditional communities in relation to forests and their natural resources are being increasingly recognized.
News
Gaia Noticias: Bolivian river dolphin is at risk of disappearing
Bolivia has a unique species in the country that lives in lakes and rivers of the Amazon.
Chief of feathers, suit and iPhone sells carbon
Son of the Amazon, Surui leader is connected to the world of technology and wins fame approving pioneering project of selling carbon credits.
Elpuercoespín: Perú: insane for gold
From the Peruvian Amazon comes out the majority of country’s gold, the sixth largest producer of the precious metal.
Empty ideologies in energy policies: a step forward and two steps back
It is essential that the Peruvian government promoted the develop a system of self-generation, with clean technologies.
Inambari case: analysis of the project from legal and social perspectives
In an interview, the representative of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, said the key points of why the project Inambari Hydroelectric was unsuccessful in the Amazon.
Farmers accuse Japanese companies of illegal appropriation of land in Amapa
Amcel, Brazilian subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation and Nippon Paper had allegedly presented false documents to obtain an environmental license.
Goeldi Museum innovates with Census of Amazonian biodiversity
Research Center launches census with ambitious goal to catalog all the biological richness ever discovered in the Amazon region.
O Estado de S.Paulo: House approves reduction of protected area
Project becomes law the government decree that allows construction of four dams in protected areas of the Amazon.
Panamazon unites against illegal mining
Ministers of Environment of the Amazon countries are according to control illegal mining. Idea is good and the action needed.