Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers
Led by a teacher and a family farmer, 15 traditional communities living in public forests in Brazil’s Amazonas state earned official recognition and the rights to collective use of their territory in March this year, following a 16-year struggle. This development in the municipality of Manicoré marks the first time in the history of Amazonas […]
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