Tag: Indigenous peoples
Bluewashing in Brazil: How an Ecotourism Project Is Expelling Indigenous Peoples from Their Land
When the notion of “ecotourism” was introduced in the late 1970s, it was intended ...
‘Doctors Have Science, We Have Wisdom,” Says Midwife Defending Her Work Inside the Amazon
The community of Deus é Pai (“God is our Father”) sits by the Tefé ...
How an Amazon Tribe in Brazil Took Control of Their Own Story and Escaped Covid
When the Uru-eu-wau-wau were first contacted in 1981, disease and death followed shortly thereafter. ...
Land Invasions More than Double in Brazil. Majority of Victims Are Indians
Land conflicts in Brazil hit 1,576 cases in 2020, the highest number ever recorded ...
Brazilian Indians Keep Their Culture Alive by Living in Big Cities
Leaning on the balcony railing at her rickety house, perched above the stairs and ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Why Killings of Environmentalists and Indians Keep Increasing in Brazil: Almost Certain Impunity
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, ...
Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway
The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...
With Close to 1,000 Deaths, Brazil Indians Get an App to Keep Track of Covid-19
Indigenous and environmental organizations in Brazil launched an app aimed at alerting indigenous communities ...
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