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If Jair Bolsonaro remains in power—legally or illegally—his government will sabotage the global campaign to slow climate change.

Two indigenous members of the Guajajara tribe in Brazil who were also "forest guardians" were killed.

“We receive reports of murders, crimes and threats every day,” says Esneda Saavedra, counselor for the rights of Indigenous peoples, human rights and peace with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). She says the victims are now young people and that there’s no guarantee of the cases being solved. “The reports arrive and are […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One president of Brazil built a giant dam that wrought tremendous...

Indigenous leaders and the Ecuadorian government reached an agreement including a repeal of Executive Decree 95 on oil and gas and reform of decree 151 affecting the mining sector, among other demands. Both decrees had authorized the government to expand the extractive frontier into Indigenous territories and important conservation and forest areas.