David Hill

The U.S. has been importing huge quantities of illegally-logged wood from the Peruvian Amazon, says a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

According to the report, released on April 10, at least 22 companies in the U.S. imported millions of dollars of illegal mahogany and cedar...

On March 17, the Peruvian newspaper La Region published an article about an Anglo-French oil company, Perenco, and its plans to pump oil in an area known as Lot 67 in the remote Amazon rainforest.

The article was brief, reading more like a Perenco PR statement than a piece of...

There's a wonderful moment in The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes when the author, Scott Wallace, deep in the Brazilian Amazon accompanying a government expedition, finds himself staring at a path apparently made by indigenous people living without any contact with outsiders.

But to...

Fox News Latino ran a story on 31 January headlined "Uncontacted Peruvian Tribe Attacks Eco Tourists," in response to the release of photos of a group of indigenous people, known as the Mashco-Piro, in the Manu region in Peru's Amazon.

Er ... no. That story has...

Or do the French rule Algeria? The Portuguese, Angola? The Italians, Libya?

No, obviously. So why is it that Indonesia rules West Papua, the western half of New Guinea and 1000s of kilometres from Jakarta?

This kind of colonialism, in which people from one part of the world lord...

Have you ever read a book called Bury my Dick at Wounded Knee? No, I thought not. That's because it doesn't exist. The real title is Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, by US librarian, writer and historian Dee Brown, a deeply moving chronicle of the attacks on and displacement...

The Observer recently reported that Leonardo DiCaprio, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbachev, among others, are backing Ecuador's 'Yasuni-ITT' plan to forgo exploiting billions of dollars of oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon in order to save the rainforest and protect the 'uncontacted' tribes living there.

Laudable as...