Meet the Indigenous Women Protecting Peru’s Amazon Rainforest

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

In 1989, after a meeting with a tribal chief, Sting started the Rainforest Fund

In 1989, renowned musician Sting partnered with others to establish the Rainforest Fund, aimed at supporting indigenous ...
The Hill

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities, and finding urban poverty

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government’s expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some ...
Phys.org

Amazon rain forest hides thousands of records of ancient Indigenous communities under its canopy, says new study

The world's most diverse forest, the Amazon, may also host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the arrival of Europeans), according to a new study. The new study ...
Phys.org

Poverty is killing the Amazon rainforest. Treating soil and farmers better can help save what's left

At dawn in this small Amazonian village in Brazil's Para state, flocks of noisy green parrots soar overhead as children run and play between wooden homes, kicking up sandy soil—in places white and ...
Williamson Source

Nashville Zoo Welcomes Nine New Red-Backed Bearded Sakis

Nashville Zoo welcomes red-backed bearded sakis on Sept. 26. Discover this new species along Bamboo Trail and learn about ...
CNN

‘Guardians of the forest’: How art made from the ashes of Amazon Rainforest fires is helping Indigenous communities

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
Panda

Brazil takes the lead in native FSC-certified forests in Latin America

With the recent certification of over 550,000 ha of native forest, Brazil has surpassed Bolivia to have the largest area of FSC-certified Amazon native forests in South America. Brasilia, Brazil - ...