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Indigenous groups demand action from South American leaders at Amazon summit

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises to protect the region's rainforest into concrete ...
Yahoo

Indigenous Brazilians protest Amazon river dredging for grain exports

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Auricelia Arapiun, pictured during the COP30 UN climate talks in 2025, was one of several Indigenous leaders protesting plans to ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Indigenous Amazon leaders demand action

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises to protect the region's rainforest into concrete action, ...
The Daily Campus

Kitu-Kara Indigenous Ecuadorian faculty Alexandra Lamiña speaks on Amazonian Indigenous mobility and place-making.

The Women’s Center held an event on Friday Sept. 27, 2024. Photo by Blake Sykes/The Daily Campus. The UConn Women’s Center hosted a talk by the Departments of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and ...
Democracy Now

COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership

BELÉM, BRAZIL–The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to ...
Phys.org

Worrying levels of lead detected in the Indigenous population of the Amazon

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a holistic perspective, including people, wildlife and the ecosystem. "In recent ...
National Catholic Reporter

EarthBeat Weekly: Church awareness of Amazon destruction increasing, but still not enough, indigenous leaders say

Editor's Note: EarthBeat Weekly is your weekly newsletter about faith and climate change. Below is the Oct. 9 edition. To receive EarthBeat Weekly in your inbox, sign up here. The start of October ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities — and finding urban poverty

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some initial ...

Amazonia's indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest have often been exoticized. A new exhibition challenges these long-held tropes.
Newsweek

Indigenous People Are Leading the End of the Fossil Fuel Era in the Amazon | Opinion

At COP30 in Brazil, one thing stood out. Indigenous Amazonian peoples and movements drove the only meaningful progress that emerged from the negotiations. Their leadership broke through a venue ...
Los Angeles Times

Indigenous groups demand action from South American leaders at Amazon summit

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises into concrete action, saying the gathering may be the ...