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SAO PAULO (AP) — The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Events: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Events: ‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Kari Guajajara, a lawyer and the first Indigenous person to obtain a law degree in Brazil’s state of Maranhão, to hear her ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Events: Collapses of Amazon riverbanks threaten communities and shipping routes
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Extreme droughts, human interventions and growing boat traffic are contributing to riverbank collapses that endanger riverside communities in the ...