The mapping platform extends its database to cover all 9 Amazonian countries Gustavo Faleiros and his team at O Eco, a Brazilian environmental news agency, are the lead...
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The U. S. Supreme Court rejected an injunction against a judgment punishing Chevron for massive oil pollution of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. A court in Ecuador...
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For fifty years, coffee prices have not risen for farmers. Despite, or because it being the second largest trade commodity after oil. Civil society and Fair Traders have...
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What I saw and what I experienced in Guatemala are more amazing than all I could express through words. Guatemala, has settled in my heart ever since. by Lola Zhang for...
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At this moment, 14,000 teenage girls and boys in Colombia alone are ROBBED OF LIFE – forced to fight, to kill, to die, subject to abuse and exploitation. It is...
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So, what do we do about cities we don’t enjoy? Cities that are poor, ugly, corrupt? I suggest we come together and create them new, from inside out. If you like...
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How about protecting some rainforest by raising $165,000 through schools? Phebe has done it. The wise world out there thinks young people are naive and inexperienced....
Read MoreAn hour long documentary ” Amazonia, masato o petroleo” shows the traditional lives of indigenous people in the Amazon, and how their subsistence lifestyle...
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Hundreds of indigenous Bolivians have made a triumphal entry into La Paz at the end of a two-month march from the Amazon to oppose the construction of a highway...
Read MoreThe construction of the third largest dam in the world was stopped by a Brazilian court. The project threatened aboriginal fishing, the judge explained in his...
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Greenpeace volunteers helped the Deni, a people indigenous to the Brazilian Amazon, demarcate their homeland: 1,6 million acres of fantastic forest. The Deni are an...
Read MoreThe Brazilian government is planning to build what would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric project on one of the Amazon’s major tributaries, the Xingu....
Read MoreFinally, one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits sees a favorable ruling. In February 2011,Chevron was found responsible for dumping 18.5...
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In 4REAL Yawanawa, Sol Guy takes Joaquin Phoenix into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest where the Yawanawa Community is on the rise thanks to the leadership of Tashka...
Read MoreThe Republic of Suriname is a country located in the Northern region of South America. Like many indigenous groups across the world, Suriname’s indigenous people...
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In 2008, Jesús León Santos and the Center for Integral Farmer Development (CEDICAM) have revolutionized La Mixteca through reforestation and soil conservation ,...
Read MoreThe Amazon is the largest and most incredible of the world’s rainforests. Located in northern part of South America it spans 9 different countries including 60% of...
Read MoreAmazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. They partner with...
Read MoreThe devastation caused by modern day development has wreaked havoc in the Amazonian rainforest and efforts are on to protect and preserve the rainforest.The Amazon...
Read MoreThe Xavante Indians are an indigenous people comprising some 9600 individuals in the territory of Mato Grosso state in Brazil. They converse in the Xavante language ,...
Read MoreSurvival International has succesfully fought for the rights of the the Ayoreo Indians living in the Chaco, a vast expanse of dense, scrubby forest stretching from...
Read More“Omama, our creator, made us think and talk with the soul of the forest, the soul of the mountain and with the soul of the moon, sun and stars, “ Shaman Davi...
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What is the greatest responsibility of mankind in each existing generation? The answer is simple. It is to take care of the future our children – our future. Taking...
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A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. “I knew we had so much hunger in the world,” Adriana said....
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In 4REAL Yawanawa, Sol Guy takes Joaquin Phoenix into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest where the Yawanawa Community is on the rise thanks to the leadership of Tashka...
Read MoreCelebration of nature, spirituality, poetry, music, spoken words. Reconnecting with long lost tradition. Don’t they sound passionate? Beautiful? Meditative? From the...
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When money is scarce or stops flowing, alternative currencies can keep a local economy afloat. They convert time, skills, and other resources into wealth, and keep...
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CDI has established more than 750 telecentres in South American ‘slums’, empowering and inspiring people to use ICT for social change. In South America,...
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“Fernando Aguirre, Chiquita’s president and CEO, says this was the first time he’d made an investment without consulting a spreadsheet. And, he adds, it was...
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