May 2012 marks the twentieth birthday of Brazil's Yanomami Park. It's the largest area of protected rainforest in the world -- it's also the best reply to critics who say that efforts to protect tribal peoples are futile.
MeiMei Fox | Posted 05.14.2012
Tyler Gage is the 26-year-old founder and CEO of Runa, a sustainable, fair-trade Amazonian tea company. It's a cool story. He's a cool dude.
Russell Mittermeier | Posted 05.10.2012
These biodiversity hotspots and wilderness areas must be among our top priorities for terrestrial conservation if we hope to preserve Earth's natural ecosystem services and biodiversity for future generations of people.
Reuters | Posted 05.05.2012
(Fixes spelling of MacDonald in 19th paragraph) By Zelie Pollon ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 28 (Reuters) - Tomé Roubideaux...
Farah Mawani | Posted 04.19.2012
Despite their centuries of experience doing so, the voices of pastoralists are often excluded from decision-making affecting their lives.
Veronique Pittman | Posted 04.11.2012
Over the past three months there has been increased tension in the Wounaan communities of Eastern Panama due to illegal loggers invading their lands.
AP | GONZALO SOLANO | Posted 05.22.2012
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — More than 1,000 indigenous protesters reached Ecuador's capital Thursday after a two-week march from the Amazon to oppose plan...
Tobias Roberts | Posted 04.14.2012
That which is sacred, cannot co-exist with nor tolerate violence.
Duane Elgin | Posted 04.02.2012
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as bea...
Mark Tercek | Posted 03.21.2012
As we watch the world debate how best to address climate change, and as carbon emissions continue to soar, at least one climate strategy strikes me as a "no-brainer." We should do everything we can to save the world's forests.
Robert Koehler | Posted 02.14.2012
The topic was "Indians of the Midwest" and the professor was knowledgeable and conveyed serious respect for Native culture, but something kept gnawing at me as she talked.
Jack Healey | Posted 02.09.2012
The raw and violent past of residential schools literally stole aboriginal children away from their parents' homes and stuck them in new and unsettling homes.
Posted 11.21.2011
The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of the Pilgrim's bountiful 1621 harvest and a thank you to the Wampanoag tribe, members of which had taught t...
Tim Giago | Posted 12.19.2011
Were the persuasive powers of the missionaries so overwhelming that they could cause a people with spiritual beliefs much older than their own to toss them aside and embrace their religion?
HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 12.06.2011
In the summer of 2007, in a remote village of the Peruvian Amazon, six children, ages 12 to 15, received a gift -- cameras with which to document thei...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.27.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Governmen...
The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 11.15.2011
Last month's worldwide protests against the Brazilian government's Belo Monte Dam project may have ended, but concerns about deforestation and displac...
Scott Poynton | Posted 11.09.2011
Villagers do often fight to save forests but sometimes, they fight to have them cleared too! Yes, the reality is not always as simple as we like to depict.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 07.17.2011
Cross-posted from Causes.com Today Amazon Watch, in partnership with the Rainforest Action Network, brought 3 Ecuadorian community activists to the U...
Robert Koehler | Posted 06.28.2011
The Bolivian national legislature may be about to birth a stunning global precedent in the creation of an environmentally sane future: establishing legal rights for Mother Earth.
Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 06.05.2011
What if a zoning code is no longer cohesive, or impedes rather than accomplishes societal goals? Let's remember to reassess -- with simplicity in mind -- and recall the first principles of shelter and the wheel.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Many are questioning why the Obama administration is covertly pushing for Bangladesh to reverse course and acquiesce to an internationally condemned open-pit mine that will displace an estimated 100,000-200,000 villagers.
Mitch Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011
As a result of Chevron's pollution, several indigenous groups in Ecuador have been decimated and more than 9,000 people are at significant risk of contracting cancer in the coming decades.
Democracy Now! | Posted 05.25.2011
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Stephen Corry | Posted 05.25.2012