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Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world
The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who ...
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Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals
The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against" human rights abuses ...
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Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest
Indigenous ranger Jason Petersen ... The 180-million-year-old Daintree Rainforest is part of the Eastern Kuku Yalani people’s ancestral lands, handed back to them by the Australian government ...
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Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report
See All Key Ideas Some of the last remaining carbon sinks in the Amazon Rainforest are largely managed by Indigenous people, a new report from the World Resources Institute says. In areas of the ...
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Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers
The Amazon rainforest is approaching a tipping point ... areas such as nature reserves and national parks. Where indigenous people maintain autonomy and control of their lands, the forests thrive.
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Video shows isolated Amazon tribe emerge from rain forest in Peru amid threat from loggers
New photos and rare video of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon show a collection of the people emerging from a rain forest – perhaps due to encroaching logging operations.
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As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water
Mariazinha’s village is located in the Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory, whose watercourses shape the livelihoods of 23 ...
Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued the New York Times over the newspaper’s reporting on the community’s ...
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To protect rainforests, do people need to be kept out?
A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...
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Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities — and finding urban poverty
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the ...
Jane Fonda Is on a Mission to Save Ecuador’s Rain Forest
Jane Fonda has always been one to stand up for what she believes in. With a lifetime of activism under her belt, the ...
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Young Indigenous man makes brief contact with modern world after wandering from isolated tribe in the Amazon rainforest
The Indigenous man quickly returned into the Amazon Rainforest after unsuccessfully trying to light a fire. AP They also said surveillance has been established to prevent people from reaching the ...