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An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels

Countries and banks financing new fossil fuel projects in the Amazon rainforest have come under increasing pressure ahead of Cop28.

Amazon Indigenous tribal leaders worry their villages and culture will wither and leave their people mired in poverty amid an exodus from the rainforest to urban areas.

Amazon Indigenous tribal leaders worry their villages and culture will wither and leave their people mired in poverty amid an exodus from the rainforest to urban areas.

Indigenous protesters in Perus Amazon have released two seized vessels belonging to the Canadian oil company PetroTal, and freed the 14 crew members, the company said Tuesday.

In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous communities take a stand against illegal activities like fishing, poaching, logging, and drug trafficking

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Yet a lawmaker has put forward a bill proposing to modify that law, a move anthropologists, Indigenous activists and leaders say would threaten legal safeguards for the PIACI and could lead to existing reserves for them being revoked. The proposal, made in November by congressman Jorge Morante of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, aims to modify the 2006 law to transfer responsibility for protecting isolated people and authority to create reserves from Peru's culture minis...

Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize

Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded...