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World Leaders and Investors Must Honor Indigenous Climate Stewardship

In August, I traveled by bus, small plane, and canoe to the sacred headwaters of the Amazon, in Ecuador. It's a place with ...
Wired

Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive. In 2025, a small, ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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 Itui ...
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As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Illegal mining activities on the border region have been degrading the water in the Negro. Although scientists have shown the river is mostly in good shape, Mariazinha’s concerns echo issues many ...
The Republic

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...
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As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

The 2024 extreme and historical drought that hit the Amazon exposed a chronic problem: access to drinking water and sanitation in Indigenous lands, where only a third of households have proper water ...