Mongabay | "We are seeing some of the same manifest destiny-style development schemes that characterized the region decades ago. It is rapidly turning the Amazon from carbon sink to carbon source at the time the climate – and planet – can least afford it," said Kevin Koenig of Amazon Watch.
Leaders of Bolivia's indigenous and environmental movements are staging emergency protests as the country's Senate meets to approve a law that would strip protections from the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory.
As negotiators butt heads in Paris over the fine print of a new United Nations climate treaty, one issue they will need to address urgently is the fate of the Amazon.
Carwil Without Borders | Bolivian indigenous leaders addressed the IACHR in the culmination of a weeklong trip in what is now the third year of the high-profile campaign to prevent the Bolivian government from building a highway through TIPNIS lands.
Foreign Policy | Delmi Morales Nosa never imagined she'd need her family's bow and arrow for anything other than hunting. But when construction started last year on a highway set to bisect her homeland, Bolivia's second-largest national park, she reconsidered.
Al Jazeera | One does not think of archaic papal bulls when witnessing democratic states like Brazil or the United States building dams on Amazon rivers or drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Yet today's political ethics are surprisingly similar to the doctrine of discovery set by the Vatican back in 1452.
Another global climate conference has come and gone, another heartbreaking missed opportunity for humanity to actually do something about impending climate chaos.
New York Times | As American dominance in the region recedes and Brazil increasingly flexes its newfound political and economic might, it has begun to experience the pitfalls of the role as well: a pushback against the hemisphere's rising power.
Yesterday, President Evo Morales cancelled a planned road project that would have cut through the heart of the TIPNIS indigenous reserve in the Bolivian Amazon.
Associated Press | La Paz, Bolivia – President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.
Today, I want to tell you about the work Amazon Watch is doing to steer Bolivia and the REDD movement in a wiser, more humane and more effective direction.
Over 3,000 people have already sent letters of concern to the Bolivian authorities over repression carried out by the police against TIPNIS protesters while they were marching to La Paz.
CNN | Bolivian indigenous leaders vow to keep fighting a road project through a national park on their ancestral homeland even though President Evo Morales said he would suspend construction pending a national dialogue.
A protest march by Bolivian indigenous peoples turned violent on Sunday as 500 Bolivian police tear-gassed, fired upon with rubber bullets, and beat protesters.
Tensions are rising in Bolivia, between indigenous President Evo Morales and indigenous communities of the the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, known as TIPNIS for its Spanish acronym. The Government has proposed to build a road straight through the Territory, with financing from the Brazil National Development Bank.
The Guardian | The people's summit to tackle climate change is a radical, transformative response to the failure of the Copenhagen clubIt was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshalling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds,
Held April 20–22, 2010 in Cochabamba, BoliviaLocal Indigenous participants at the People's Climate Summit in
Photos from an Amazon Watch trip through the Madeira River basin to bring back stories of anguish and hope in the fight to stop the construction of two mega-hydroelectric dams on the Amazon's principal tributary.
New York Times | By SIMON ROMEROPublished: January 25, 2009EL ALTO, Bolivia — President Evo Morales seemed assured of an easy victory in a referendum on Sunday over a sweeping new Constitution aimed at empowering Bolivia’s Indians. The vote capped three years of conflict-ridden efforts by Mr.
E Magazine | The 1988 murder of Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, in Brazil’s Amazon River basin was a major international story.
E Magazine | When I met Sister Dorothy Stang, I knew I was encountering someone remarkable. I met her in Belém, the capital of Pará state in northern Brazil. Belém has more than a million people. It was not the natural habitat for Dayton, Ohio native Dorothy Stang, who had gone to the city to petition the state government.
A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONALLa Organizacion Indigena Chiquitana (OICH), preocupada por la crisis nacional que vive el pais y conocedores de la conducta del gobierno con los sectores y mas excluidos y marginados de nuestro pais, como somos los indigenas, campesinos, mineros y obreros, asi tambien ante la
(espanol sigue ingles)By Jorge Cortés F. CEADES BOLIVIA ceadescz@entelnet.boIn May of the 2003 in the Seoul 11th International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) we denounced the serious problems of corruption that characterize the Bolivian government and the disastrous consequences this had for B
. | The initial phase of the Environmental Audit of the Cuiaba gas pipeline, requested a year ago by indigenous organizations representing the Chiquitano and Ayoreo peoples began today in San Jose de Chiquitos with the arrival of a large delegation of inspectors from the Vice-Ministry of Sustainable Development.
. | De esta forma el gobierno debió ceder ante la presión de las Organizaciones Indígenas, los Comités Cívicos Provinciales, la Defensoría del Pueblo y ONGs Nacionales e Internacionales.
Government authorities succumb to pressure from Indigenous Organizations, Local Civic Committees, Ombudsman Office and National and International NGOs.The initial phase of the Environmental Audit of the Cuiaba gas pipeline, requested a year ago by indigenous organizations representing the Chiquitano and Ayoreo pe
Los Tiempos | Washington, DC - Grupos ambientalistas Amazon Watch, Friends of the Earth y la Red de Energía y Economía del Instituto de Estudios Políticos han divulgado un informe acompañado por un video que demuestra que los impactos ambientales de los gasoductos Cuiaba y Bolivia-Brasil de Enron y Shell persisten.Como indica el
World Markets Analysis | The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has approved a US$132m loan to Transredes, the transmission company that is owned by Enron and Shell, for the expansion of the Yacimientos-Bolivian Gulf (Yabog) pipeline.
IPS | Washington, DC - Despite strong objections from environmental and indigenous non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Wednesday approved 132 million dollars in financing for a controversial pipeline project led by the Bolivian subsidiaries of Shell and scandal-plagued E
