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Winners and Finalists of the #NuestraAmazonía (Our Amazon) Letter Contest

Léalo en español. After receiving more than 700 entries by young people from six Amazonian countries...

Multiple Authors

December 22, 2023

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PART OF: Who Are the Messengers of Fear of the COVID Vaccine in Aymara and Quechua Communities in Peru?

Bolivian Juan Santa Cruz Torrez Invades Peru With Lies About COVID Vaccines

Grober Cutipa
Grantee

December 21, 2023
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PART OF: Effects of the Tocantins-Araguaia Hidrovia on Indigenous, Quilombola, and Ribeirinho Communities

Licensing of the Tocantins-Araguaia Waterway Is “Repeating the Mistakes of Belo Monte,” Says MPF (Portuguese)

Tiffany Higgins
Grantee

December 21, 2023
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PART OF: A Land of Rights

In Pará, Women Become Lawyers To Fight for Land (Portuguese)

Marcela Bonfim
Amazon RJF Grantee

December 20, 2023
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PART OF: Bolsonaro’s Legacy to Lula: Illegal Mining Infests Indigenous Lands

With Explosives and Tunnels, Mining Traps Indigenous People and the State in Super-Invaded Land in 2023 (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

December 19, 2023
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Who Are the Messengers of Fear of the COVID Vaccine in Aymara and Quechua Communities in Peru?

During the pandemic, myths and lies related to COVID-19 vaccines emerged, and they continue to...

Grober Cutipa
Grantee

READ MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT - Who Are the Messengers of Fear of the COVID Vaccine in Aymara and Quechua Communities in Peru?
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PART OF: Lobbies and Pressures Behind Anchoveta Management in Peru

Official Documents Reveal the Ministry of Production's Resistance To Restructuring the Peruvian Marine Institute (Spanish)

Magali Estrada Astiquipan
ORN Fellow

December 17, 2023
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PART OF: How To Save the Amazon: The Struggle of the Yawanawa People and the Collective Future Visions of the Cacique Biraci Nixiwaka (Spanish)

A Chief, a Journalist and a Way To Save Amazonia (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

December 15, 2023
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PART OF: A Land of Rights

José Cláudio and Maria: The Couple Who Defied Environmental Crimes in the Amazon (Portuguese)

Marcela Bonfim
Amazon RJF Grantee

December 14, 2023
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PART OF: How To Save the Amazon: The Struggle of the Yawanawa People and the Collective Future Visions of the Cacique Biraci Nixiwaka (Spanish)

Death Won’t Silence the Forest (French)

Felipe Milanez
Guest Contributor

December 13, 2023
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PART OF: The Dark Side of Hydropower

How We Did It: The Dark Side of Hydropower

Tobias Landwehr
Grantee

December 12, 2023
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PART OF: Cosmology & Pandemic: What We Can Learn From Indigenous Responses to a Health Crisis

Episode 2: Legacy of the Andes

Multiple Authors

December 11, 2023