Amazon
Indigenous voices of South America have demonstrated a range of activism and advocacy instruments and strategies to protect the Amazon rainforest and their territories.
Indigenous protesters have defended charging the gates of Brazil's COP30 climate summit and clashing with security, saying the action was aimed at demonstrating the desperation of their fight for fore...
What began as a bold idea to bottle Country is now landing on doorsteps nationwide. Yaala Sparkling — the Indigenous-owned beverage company founded by proud Wiradjuri woman Tara Croker — i...
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon calling for Peru's government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights this month.
Indigenous languages all over the world are "disappearing", but one Western Australian group is taking the preservation of their language into the digital realm.
President Joe Biden has visited the Amazon rainforest where he met with Indigenous leaders ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. Biden flew from Lima, Peru, to Manaus, Brazil, the largest city in...
Ecuador state oil company Petroecuador says it will shut down a large drilling project in the Yasuni ecological reserve in the Amazon rainforest, following a referendum vote to protect the environment...
Eight Amazon nations have agreed to a list of unified environmental policies and measures to bolster regional co-operation at a major rainforest summit in Brazil, but failed to agree on a common goal...
Leaders of the eight Amazon rainforest countries are gathering for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach a broad agreement on fighting deforestation.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has declared six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming in the areas.
The Brazilian government has scheduled a meeting for early August to revive the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, ACTO, brings together the countries...
New Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has wasted no time reversing the anti-Indigenous agenda of his predecessor, former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Conservatives in Peru are seeking to exploit the chaos caused by the overthrow and arrest of President Pedro Castillo by passing a new law to strip Indigenous people of legal protections and abolish r...