The São Luiz do Tapajós mega-dam has been suspended by Brazilian authorities in a surprise turnaround that recognizes the presence of indigenous territories in the dam’s vicinity.
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Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve
New data indicate a big surge in gold mining in and near Tambopata National Reserve over the past few months.
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Río Santiago, the last frontier of Peruvian illegal mining
New threats and little state presence make indigenous intend to bring their demands to international courts.
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Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect their environment
The colonos and beiradeiros live sustainably, but a new ecological station created around them could force these rural people from their lands.
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BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters
Brazil’s development bank is investing heavily in a plan to build huge hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and across South America.
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Participatory research project: indigenous languages and digital media
Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated – slowly, but surely – digital media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.
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Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle
Xipaya Indians and beiradeiros (river people), are finding a life in common in the village of Tukaya on the remote reaches of the Iriri River.
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BNDES-funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems
Was Brazil‘s BNDES bank too rigid to change course when the Belo Monte dam showed signs of becoming a financial, environmental and social disaster?
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Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has pledged another $100 million toward efforts to establish and support protected areas across the Andes–Amazon landscape.
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Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business
Today’s small family-run Brazil nut processing center prospers, while Henry Ford’s rubber plantation and Julio Vito Pentagna Guimarāes’s mega-cattle ranch have been reclaimed by the jungle.