Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...
By Shanna Hanbury Brazil has suspended a decree on dredging and privatizing the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the ...
Brazil announced on Friday the suspension of dredging operations on a major Amazon tributary, after Indigenous communities ...
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...
Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...
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 take on some of the latest and biggest events affecting ...
Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...