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Indigenous peoples demand consultation as controversial road paves through Peru’s Amazon
By Aimee Gabay An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s ...
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New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk
Image courtesy of ORPIO. Pablo Chota Ruiz, secretary of Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon (ORPIO), the ...
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Smithsonian Scientists Discover That Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Amazon Helped Yield an Enduring Crop Clone
Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...
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, ...
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Dreaming of the Sun
Ninety-five percent of deforestation in the Amazon has occurred within 3.4 miles of a road, according to a landmark 2014 ...
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 ...
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Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku Indigenous land sees success, but fears remain
This is part one of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Part two, ...
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Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
uncontacted regions of the Amazon rainforest, according to Survival International, an advocacy group for Indigenous peoples. Survival International told AP the recent appearance of dozens of ...
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Peru’s Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
But Julio Cusurichi Palacios, a member of AIDESEP’s Board of Directors from the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon said the government "have stated things that are not in accordance with what is ...