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...
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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...
In search of new viewpoints and new futures, Amazônia Latitude releases it’s first printed edition
Specially selected content discusses exploration, culture, and thinking on the largest tropical rainforest in the world Created in 2019 under the motto of making the bridge...
Amazon: A new tipping point?
Leia a tradução para o português aqui. Read the translation to Portuguese. The Amazon biome is the world´s largest remaining tropical forest, hosting around 10% of...
Amazonia: Seeing the Unseen with COVID-19
I will never forget my conversation two days ago with Rafael, a fisherman on the riverbank of the Solimões River, in the small and isolated city...
Indigenous Agency in Luiz Bolognesi’s Ex-Shaman
The film Ex-Shaman (2018) by Luiz Bolognesi follows the life of an ex-shaman, Perpera Surui, as he confronts the implications of evangelization and modernity to the...