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After two murders, a Brazilian Indigenous leader steps up the fight
In an interview with e360, Beto Marubo, a leader of Brazil’s Indigenous Amazon people, discusses the recent murders of an activist and a journalist and excoriates President Jair Bolsonaro for opening Indigenous territories to a host of environmentally destructive activities.
The war for the rainforest
Set aside for an isolated Indigenous group, the Brazilian preserve Ituna-Itatá has now been heavily deforested — a grim illustration of the intractable forces destroying the Amazon.
https://www.yintahaccess.com
Wet’suwet’en land defenders say inaction prompted Coastal GasLink eviction
When the pipeline company failed to act on an immediate evacuation order, land defenders decommissioned a service road, cutting off access to project sites and work camps housing more than 500 individuals.
www.nationalgeographic.com
This sacred bean saved an indigenous clan from climate calamity
Years after coal mining and a prolonged drought sapped their water and food supplies, an indigenous community in Colombia’s Guajira desert is rebounding thanks to a resilient legume.
theintercept.com
Documents detail TigerSwan infiltration of Standing Rock
North Dakota’s private security regulator said a trove of company documents showed TigerSwan’s denials were “willfully false and misleading.”
therevelator.org
A critical fight for the rights of nature
Los Cedros Reserve, one of Earth’s most biodiverse habitats, could be wiped out by mining. A court could save it — and set a precedent for the planet.
ensia.com
Why indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge are vital to protecting future global biodiversity
Historically, indigenous knowledge around protecting biodiversity has largely been ignored by Western science. That's starting to change.
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