Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest have often been exoticized. A new exhibition challenges these long-held tropes.Across history, European depictions of the Amazon have typically presented ...

BELÉM, BRAZIL–The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to ...

In October 2023, a delegation of La Gente de Centro — the Andoke (Pɵɵsiɵhɵ), Nonuya (Nonova), Muinane (Féénemɨnaa) and Uitoto ...

At the end of February, Guaraní Indigenous people from what’s known as the Brazilian Amazon stopped a big Cargill project that would move more soybeans and cause more deforestation. Cargill, a ...

Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis, ...

Cristiana Bertazoni has received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG. She is carrying out research on mapping the sacred Ashaninka landscape with the Ashaninka Apiwtxa community in ...

This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. In 2023, she ...