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Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement threatens Indigenous rights and territories in the Amazon

Canada and Ecuador’s new free-trade agreement is threatening the rights of Indigenous peoples and their territories, and increasing social and environmental conflicts across the country. These are just some of the concerns being brought forward by the National Confederation of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador and other civil rights organizations in…

The Conversation

‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer – and help Amazonian communities in the process

The Guardian - UK

Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides

Diana Vera, a passionate local guide from Serranía de la Lindosa, Colombia, leads a group of sweaty and panting European tourists through the hot, lush Amazonian rainforest. Together, they climb the flattop hill (known as tepui) of Nuevo Tolima. Their destination? A vast, ancient painted wall perched at the very…

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Cop30 in talks to hire PR firm that worked for lobby seeking weaker Amazon protections

Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in Amazon

The Guardian - US

Amazon Rainforest Chopped Down to Build Highway for Conference on Climate Change

The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 climate summit.

Latin Times

Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights

The Independent UK

Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, presenting their case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

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Melting ice hits brake on world's strongest sea current

An ocean current 100 times stronger than the Amazon River is expected to slow as ice sheets melt, with knock-on impacts for sea level rise and ecosystems.

AAP

In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people

The Independent UK

‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

Despite government efforts, armed groups control many remote areas. Now researchers are caught in the crosshairs

The Guardian - UK

Moment young indigenous man makes contact with outside world after wandering from isolated tribe in Amazon

Brazil said it does not actively seek contact with these groups but instead establishes protected areas

The Independent UK

Moment boy from isolated tribe emerged from Amazon Rainforest and asked for fire

This is the moment a young man from an isolated indigenous tribe approached a populated river community in the Amazon.

The Independent UK

Man from uncontacted Amazon tribe emerges from forest

The man approached a village along the Purus River

Evening Standard

Brazil's Lula backs oil exploration in the Amazon ahead of hosting UN climate talks

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to finance a transition to green energy

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International Business Times

Lula Pushes Mega-oil Project As Brazil Prepares To Host COP30

Brazil's president this week amped up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite criticism from environmentalists as the country prepares to host UN climate talks in November.

The Independent UK

From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats

The Independent UK

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists

Mysterious behaviour may be form of communication

The Independent UK

Surreal prices for COP30 in Brazil's Amazon leave attendees scrambling for accommodation

Nine months ahead of the 2025 U.N. climate conference known as COP30, prices for lodging are alarming those who want to attend the event in Belem, Brazil’s Amazonian host city

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The Guardian - UK

‘Hope has returned’: tribe hails Lula’s fight against illegal mining in Amazon

Two years after Brazil’s president vowed to bring the Yanomami tribe back from the brink, hunger and infant mortality rates are falling

The Guardian - UK

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

LiveScience

Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggests

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

International Business Times

Brazil Saw 79% Jump In Area Burned By Fires In 2024: Monitor

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country continues to battle blazes often set by farmers and ranchers illegally expanding their territory.

International Business Times

Trump's Climate Retreat Will Have 'Significant Impact' On COP30: Brazil

Brazil warned Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement would have a major impact on COP30 talks to be held in the Amazon in November.

Latin Times

Colombia Vows 'War' As Guerrilla Violence Kills 100

In just five days, bloodshed has been reported across three Colombian departments -- from the remote Amazon jungle in the south to the mountainous northeastern border with Venezuela, where fighting has displaced almost 20,000 people.

Latin Times

Meet Helena Gualinga: The Ecuadorian Activist Who Stole Shawn Mendes' Heart

The 22-year-old Ecuadorian activist has previously fought for the rights of the community living in the Amazon rainforest.

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