Amazonas state government tries to avoid repossession of an area occupied by about 300 families in Tarumã neighborhood in the west of the capital
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Organizations create map of Amazonian indigenous producers
Free access database provides a better connection between indigenous producers in South America and the world market.
Impact studies of hydroelectric São Luiz do Tapajós are insufficient
The Brazilian environmental licensing agency, IBAMA, asks the reformulation of the impact study in more than 180 points that need to be deepened.
The Guardian: Colombian tribe scores ‘historic’ victory versus Big Gas
State company Ecopetrol pulls out of drilling site in territories belonging to the indigenous U’wa people.
Two years after remove invaders and great challenges for Indigenous Marãiwatsédé
After remove invaders of Indigenous Marãiwatsédé, it’s time to learn to live peacefully with different socioeconomic models.
BBC: Brazil Amazon: Drone to scan for ancient Amazon
Scientists are to scan the Amazon forest in Brazil to look for evidence of occupation by ancient civilisations. A drone will be sent up with a laser instrument to peer through the canopy for earthworks that were constructed thousands of years ago.
Stanford News: Scientists team with indigenous will produce carbon calculations
By teaching basic ecology field work techniques to indigenous groups in the Amazon, Stanford researchers have found that satellite measurements of rainforests in the area underestimate the region’s carbon storage potential.
Biosphere Reserve Pilon Lajas: (Indigenous) People of the Forest
The story of the inhabitants of the Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve and Communal Lands, in the Bolivian Amazon
Rolling Stone: Murder of activists in the Amazon Rainforest
The situation is especially bad in the northwest Amazon. News of José Antún’s death in Ecuador follows the September killing of four Peruvian indigenous anti-logging activists near the Brazil border.
COP20: Indigenous women take leadership on climate change
Female leaders of Amazonian peoples had announced commitments and policy that promotes the role of women in the adaptation to climate change