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The Karipuna People are under threat and want the world to act
The Karipuna Indigenous People met with Ambassadors from European countries to ask for help to protect their lands and rights from land-grabbers and loggers.
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Decolonisation: A crucial prerequisite to environmental justice in Africa
All across Africa, a colonial approach of extraction and exploitation continues to plague and paralyse economies. It pushes ecosystems to the edge and puts pan-Africanism on a back burner
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Amazon rainforest fires 2022: Facts, causes, and climate impacts
The Amazon rainforest is shrinking. The fires in the Amazon are growing. And the impacts of this destruction are a risk to the entire planet.
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Illegal fires in the Brazilian Amazon reach highest number since 2010
Despite an official ban on fires by the federal government, the number of fires in August was 18% higher than the prior year.
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DRC’s forests-for-oil sale reeks of neocolonialism
Behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s nationalist rhetoric lie big profits for global energy giants, and hurt for poor Congolese.
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That work that rekindles the sparkle in our eyes
Returning to the Amazon and witnessing its splendor renews our strength to fight against the destruction and violence that consume us and the forest.
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The Amazon We Need expedition
The Amazon is an ancient forest, home to incredible animals and unknown species. Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and environmental activists are among those who are working to protect it amid…
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It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts to nature collapsing.
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We need to get it right
Let’s talk about the Amazon that we need — as an act of resistance, Let’s talk about the fight for land rights. Let’s talk about traditional cultures that respect the forest, biodiversity, science and everything that is necessary to move forward.