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Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon

Sam Cowie 1 Dec 2023

São Paulo Indigenous community pins its territorial hopes on a new village

Sam Cowie 20 Sep 2023

‘Don’t buy Brazilian gold’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Sam Cowie 20 Apr 2023
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022

Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric

Sam Cowie 27 May 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

World’s biggest meatpacker JBS bought illegally grazed Amazon cattle: Report

Sam Cowie 20 Jul 2020

Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate

Sam Cowie 10 Jun 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020
IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020
Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November 2019. Image reproduced from his Facebook profile. 

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

Sam Cowie 3 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Sam Cowie 27 Feb 2020

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Sam Cowie 14 Jan 2020
Detail of the Igarapé Água Branca stream, the last clean waterway in the city of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in the Amazon region. Image by César Nogueira.

The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus

Sam Cowie 8 Jan 2020

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