Tag: Amazon
Brazil: The Day the Munduruku Found Out the Police Were Not Their Friend
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the ...
A Race to Preserve Brazil’s Newly-Discovered Amazon Reef
The first pictures of a huge coral reef system discovered in the Amazon last ...
35,000 Troops Guard Brazil’s Frontiers. Most Are in the Amazon
Drug seizures are not infrequent in Brazil’s Amazon region. In early January alone, the ...
Defying Loggers, Brazil’s Amazon People Create Exemplary Green Communities
Established 18 years ago in a location that stretches over the municipalities of Santarém ...
A Floating Lodge in the Amazon Preserves Nature While Providing for the Locals
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve is approximately 600 km off of the Amazonas state ...
Indians, Satellites, Helicopters, Machine Guns: All Is Fair in the War to Defend the Amazon
When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have ...
Uncontacted Indians Lives Threatened by Amazon Fires in Brazil
Forest fires are raging in an indigenous territory on the edge of the Brazilian ...
Brazil Scraps a Dam in the Amazon. There Are Dozens of Others in the Works Though
After the environmental permitting for the São Luiz do Tapajós, Pará, hydropower dam project ...
“We Are Not Dying,” Answer Indigenous Peoples to Sensationalized Photo Expo
An Amazon Indian protested outside the exhibition of controversial photographer Jimmy Nelson’s work “Before ...
Global Warming to Be Monitored by Brazil Amazon’s Giant Tower
Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Amazon ...
