BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug…
Read more What to know about uncontacted Indigenous peoples and efforts to protect themBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village…
Read more Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights groupIndigenous women in Cali hold a protest commodificationof their traditional natural products. Majority of the indigenous organizations participants in the COP have been vocal about their opposition to…
Read more At COP16, Biodiversity Credits Raising Hopes and ProtestsOpinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 22 (IPS) – New institutional economics (NIE) has received another…
Read more Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional EconomicsBalta, Peru – On an overcast afternoon in April, Nolasco Torres and Freddy Capitan navigate their canoe along a jungle-veiled ravine. Along the route, they scrutinise the creeping…
Read more The Indigenous ‘watchmen’ safeguarding Peru’s isolated tribesAn igapó, a flood-prone wooded area on the Vuelta Grande of the Xingu River, with fruit on the dry ground. This is where the piracema, or fish reproduction,…
Read more Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian BrazilMembers of the indigenous guard of the native community of Puerto Nuevo, of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, located in the central-eastern jungle of Peru. Credit: Courtesy of Marcelo…
Read more Government Indifferent to Invasion of Drug Traffickers in the Peruvian AmazonDelegates say the survival of humanity is interlinked with the sustainable use of ocean and marine biodiversity resources. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, May 15, 2024…
Read more Ocean Action on Global Agenda as Negotiations to Save Biodiversity DeepenAn area of illegal mining activity was raided by the Brazilian Federal Police in the eastern Amazon on Jan. 17, where their precarious installations and housing, as well…
Read more Illegal Artisanal Mining Threatens Amazon Jungle and Indigenous Peoples in BrazilLacandona, the great Mayan jungle that extends through the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, is home to natural wealth and indigenous peoples’ settlements that are once again…
Read more The Ghost of Oil Haunts Mexico’s Lacandona JungleCredit: Emmanuel Andres/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Thursday, January 18, 2024 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan 18 (IPS) – Guatemala’s new president,…
Read more Guatemala’s Chance for a New BeginningThe ancient village of Kbaal Romeas has been flooded. Credit: Kris Janssens / IPS by Kris Janssens (ratanakiri province, cambodia) Thursday, January 18, 2024 Inter Press Service RATANAKIRI PROVINCE,…
Read more Centuries-Old Rituals Are Slowly Fading Away in CambodiaIndigenous Peoples from Alianza Ceibo fight to counter environmental degradation and protect more than 2 million hectares of primary rainforest in four provinces and 70 communities in the…
Read more Combating Corruption to Address the Triple Planetary CrisesOpinion by Bibbi Abruzzini, Nina Sangma (new delhi, india) Wednesday, December 06, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, India, Dec 06 (IPS) – We, a global coalition of over…
Read more Global Civil Society Launches Manifesto for Ethical AIResearch team in the Arctic. Professor Tjernström is standing on the left. Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Monday, December 04, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec 04…
Read more A Climate Scientist’s View of COP 28For more than a month, protests against Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine have held Panama in a state of siege. Roadblocks have caused gas and propane shortages.…
Read more Panama celebrates court order to cancel mine even as business is hitCredit: Jenny Evans/Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, November 20, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 20 (IPS) – Australia had the chance to…
Read more Australia: Reconciliation Back to Square One?Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 24 (IPS) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has delivered a long-awaited ruling upholding…
Read more Brazil: A Step Forward for Indigenous Peoples RightsSara López (C) and other members of the Regional Indigenous and Popular Council of Xpujil are seen here in a photo from 2020, while campaigning against the environmental…
Read more Mexico Turns to Military EntrepreneursAs climate change and rising sea levels threaten the island of Gardi Sugdub, leaders in the local Indigenous community are increasingly worried that the Panamanian government will fail…
Read more Climate displacement threatens Indigenous Guna people in Panama: HRW
