UN Environment Programme10d
How a grassroots financing model is helping Indigenous communities save the Amazon
A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...
Mongabay News on MSN3d
Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands
Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp forest that’s key to ...
The brave rely on their own strength
When the Pandavas lost their kingdom in a game of dice and had to go into the forest, everyone was shocked by the turn of ...
The Independent25d
Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
There are at least 20 uncontacted tribes in Peru that live in the most remote, uncontacted regions of the Amazon rainforest, according to Survival International, an advocacy group for Indigenous ...
Eco-business17d
The Amazon rainforest’s fossil fuel rush
In Peru, Colombia and Ecuador ... In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous lands. The country’s Congress and the ...