Gang charged up to $50,000 for each jaguar illegally hunted in the Amazon
While the name Jorge Néstor Noya is barely known in Bolivia or Brazil, it is notorious in his homeland of Argentina, where he is accused...
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COP30 in the Amazon Has Already Started for the Indigenous Peoples
COP30 in the Amazon has already started for the indigenous peoples that have been mobilized in Belém. They have been occupying the Secretary of Education,...
Once More Around the Sun Looking for the Amazon…
In 2024, Amazônia Latitude completed eight years covering one of the most complex, important, and intriguing regions in the world. We are observers and witnesses...
The Indigenous Issue in Brazil
Last November, two joint operations conducted in Pará sought to dismantle the robust criminal infrastructure that established illegal mining operations in demarcated Indigenous lands in...
The Amazon on Europe’s Plate
The shameful decision of the European Commission to delay the anti-deforestation law by at least a year means the following: on your plate there will...
Green (less) Hell
It was Alberto Rangel that made the phrase “Green Hell” famous. The image evoked by this trope transcended the pages of fiction and was brought...
The Future is in our Territories: the film
Activists from Indigenous and Afrodescendent organisations from 22 countries across the Americas gathered in the Ecuadorian Amazon last October to attend an urgent meeting in response...
Ailton Krenak: Samba to Postpone the End of the World
On April 5, the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters – ABL) will welcome its first Indigenous member in its over 150 years of...
‘One of the greatest environmental damages in this decade is the armed conflicts’, said Ailton Krenak
On October 30 2023, the documentary Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022, 73 min) was screened at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). The session...
Storytelling, Care, and Abundance in ‘Stepping Softly on the Earth’
It was wonderful to get a full taste of what I see as Marcos Colón’s Amazon trilogy. We had “Beyond Fordlândia”, which was very much...