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Inside the fight against illegal mining in the Amazon
Deforestation and degraded forests. Polluted and poisoned rivers. Invasion of Indigenous Lands. Exposure to illness. Lost lives and endangered traditional ways of life. Illegal mining is a threat to all facets of life in the Amazon rainforest.
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In West Papua, using culture to save the forest
What I saw and experienced in Indonesia is how cultural campaigning can be a powerful tool to enhance people's power to address serious and urgent issues, including loss of forests, and resist state policies that destroy culture and heritage.
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Fighting for inclusion and justice in Brazil’s Amazonas capital
At the meeting point of the Rio Negro and the Amazon lies Manaus, capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, people are connecting younger generations with their roots to help counter the alienation they feel in the modern world.
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The true meaning of economy – the art of taking care of our common home
Brazil’s semi-arid region has dry-forests with immense biodiversity, but suffers from water scarcity, making it a hostile climate, long associated with environmental degradation, extreme poverty, drought and predatory landowning elites.
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The Yanomami People are facing a humanitarian crisis in Brazil
In the last four years, the expansion of illegal mining in the Amazon has caused hundreds of deaths in the largest Indigenous Land in Brazil.
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People Power: COP15 highlights
At COP15, Indigenous Peoples made their voices heard and showed the impact people power can have.
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A bandage for biodiversity protection
The 15th UN Conference on Biodiversity has ended with a historic deal but much work left to do.
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Stripped down COP15 biodiversity framework draft would leave biodiversity unprotected
The Chinese presidency put forward text that acknowledges the necessary rights, roles, territories and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples but leaves targets wide open for industry to continue biodiversity-destroying activities.