For over a month Chief Raoni and the Kayapo have suffered threats and intimidation at the hands of cattle ranchers, illegal settlers and hired gunman who are determined to push them off their lands.
All: 2012
A Tough-Oil World
Why Twenty-First Century Oil Will Break the Bank – and the Planet
TomDispatch | Oil prices are now higher than they have ever been, and the principal cause of higher prices cannot be reversed. In energy terms, we are now entering a world whose grim nature has yet to be fully grasped.
The Fight for Amazonia: The Internet Indians
Meet the tribe using the internet to tackle the logging mafias targeting their villages
Al Jazeera | The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Climate Change Could Increase Fires, Logging, and Hunting in Rainforests
Mongabay.com | The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
A Day in Rumipamba
Jungle Dispatch | There was a Texaco oil spill in Rumipamba back in 1976. 35 years later, the Quichua convinced the state oil company to give them jobs, a pump, and some overalls and boots to clean up the decades-old spill. For booms, the Quichua use sticks from the forest.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
ILO Concerned With Lack of Indigenous Input on Belo Monte
Indian Country Today | Continued construction of the Belo Monte dam, a huge and controversial hydroelectric plant on Brazil's Xingú River raised red flags for a committee of experts from the International Labor Organization (ILO), which called for the country to ensure respect for Indigenous Peoples' rights and priorities.
How Far Would You Go To Save It All?
The Understory | That's the tagline for a new documentary being made about the Yasuni national forest in Ecuador, which has been called "Earth's Eden" because of its stunning beauty and incredible biodiversity, and which the oil industry has been all to eager to despoil.
Chevron's Amazon-Sized Gamble on Latin America
Reuters | The crisis in Brazil adds big new risks for Chevron in what could be a year of reckoning for its Latin American portfolio. It already faces an $18 billion environmental verdict in Ecuador, arising from decades of oil pollution in the Amazon region by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001.
Brazil’s Women and War – Sheyla’s Tale
Euronews | Sheyla Yakarepi Juruna travels the world to raise awareness about the threats facing the Amazonian forest and its people. Her principal battle is against the Belo Monte Dam project due to be the third largest dam in the world built on the River Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon.
Ecuador Indigenous Protesters March Against Mining
BBC News | Indigenous protesters in Ecuador have begun a two-week march across the country against plans for large-scale mining projects.
International Labor Organization Raps Brazil over Monster Dam
Mongabay.com | The UN's International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a report stating that the Brazilian government violated the rights of indigenous people by moving forward on the massive Belo Monte dam without consulting indigenous communities.
It's Oil for Chocolate
Jungle Dispatch | Donald Moncayo has acted as the "fixer" for hundreds of journalists over the last decade on what has become known as "the toxic tour." He has been described in hundreds of articles, and he could possibly be the most photographed man in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon.
ILO Says Brazil Violated Convention 169 in Belo Monte Case
International Labor Organization confirms government violated indigenous rights
Altamira, Brazil – A report released by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations for the International Labor Organization (ILO) found the Brazilian government directly violated the rights of indigenous communities in the Xingu region of the Amazon while plowing forward with the controversial Belo Monte...
Amazon Indigenous Group Protests Oil Industry Maneuvers
Contested law seeks international, government protections
Alianza Arkana Blog | Leaders of the Awajún people of the Peruvian Amazon publically outed the Spanish oil company Repsol for conducting so-called "clandestine workshops" inside Awajún territory to win hearts and minds.
AIDESEP Visits Washington, DC
An Indigenous Organization's Fight for Community-Based Conservation
Roberto brings an analysis of why AIDESEP's community-based proposals will protect more forest (and reduce more carbon emissions), and Daysi speaks to the need for expanded indigenous land tenure as an integral part of any conservation effort.
Dignity Incarnate
Inside Journey, Ecuador’s Cofán Still Standing Strong Against Chevron
Jungle Dispatch | I accompanied Emergildo Criollo from his home in Lago Agrio to a press conference in Quito. His voice trembles for a second, and then he says with strength: "I am Emergildo Criollo of the Cofán people, and I am proud to be here today."
Guilty, Again and Again
Ecuadorian Appeals Court Ratifies Chevron Ruling
The Chevron case marked an important turning point yesterday when an Ecuadorian appeals court issued its final ruling, ratifying its historic $18 billion judgment against the oil company.
The Fight for Amazonia: Raids in the Rainforest
Follow Brazil's youngest national park director as she declares war on drug gangs and the logging mafia
Al Jazeera | At the age of 27, Ana Rafaela D'Amico is the youngest national park director in Brazil. In order to save the rainforest, she has declared war on the drug gangs and logging mafia and on illegal fishing.
Native Indian Tribes Facing "Extinction"?
As demand for natural resources impacts Latin America's indigenous groups we ask if their interests will ever be on top
Al Jazeera | A discussion with Peter Hakim, the former president of the Inter-American Dialogue; Kevin Koenig, the Ecuador program coordinator for Amazon Watch; and Greg Palast, an investigative reporter and author.
Ecuador's Sarayaku See an Existential Threat
Al Jazeera | The Sarayaku are a native people who live in several villages along a stretch of the Bobonaza river in the province of Pastaza in the southern part of the Ecuadorean Amazon. They number about one to two thousand and lead a frugal, self-contained life that has changed little in the last 100 years. But all that is now being threatened. The threat is...
Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy?
Forbes | Who said women were stewards of the environment? Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon.
Inspiration from the Xingu, A Final Stand
This is why we do what we do. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we committed to these people and to the Amazon. It's because standing in solidarity means much more than a simple expression.
PlusPetrol Contaminates Rio Corrientes with More Oil Spills
Video Denounces New Spill
Alianza Arkana Blog | Still recovering from a recent spate of devastating oil spills on the Chambira and Marañon rivers, leaders from Amazon communities in Northern Peru are decrying yet another PlusPetrol spill on the Rio Corrientes.
Chevron Paid Thousands to Influence Government Trade Talks
Washington, DC – Chevron Corp. paid thousands of dollars to sponsor an exclusive corporate reception today in Washington, DC, which will be attended by foreign ambassadors and U.S. state governors, in an effort to influence ongoing talks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Notes from Bogotá: The U'wa Solidarity Campaign
Claudia Cobaría of the U'wa relates the threats of oil and gas extraction to Mount Cocuy, "the lungs of water." "The snowcapped mountain is a source of life, the connection we U'wa have with the ocean and the rest of the planet."
An Evening with the Bacajá Xikrín
An intimate look into the life and culture of the Xikrín Kayapo in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon just kilometers away from where the government is plowing forward to build the Belo Monte Dam that could devastate their way of life.
URGENTE: Cacique Raoni e Indíos Kayapós sob ataque!
Cacique Raoni pediu apoio para pressionar o governo brasileiro para proteger as terras de seu povo contra criminosos armados enviados para intimidá-los.
Iquitos Streets Fill with Demands for Clean Water
Oil Companies Pose New Threat to City Water Source
Alianza Arkana Blog | Lending their bodies and voices to a chorus of songs and chants, hundreds of Peruvians marched through the streets of Iquitos to protest destructive oil drilling along the tributaries of the Amazon River.
URGENT: Chief Raoni and the Kayapo Under Attack!
Chief Raoni has called for support to pressure the Brazilian government to protect his people's lands against armed thugs sent by ranchers and illegal settlers to intimidate them and encroach upon their lands.
