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Imagine that your survival depended on defending your right to live where you are standing right now. Any day, the government could decide to start extracting oil or constructing a highway, exactly ...
Compounding the situation is the troubling evidence that the medicine at the heart of the Wixárika cosmogony, Lophophora williamsii, peyote, or in their language, Hikuri, is rapidly disappearing. The ...
Last June, an Ecuadorean court ordered the suspension of all mining activities by a Chinese corporation in the highlands of Rio Blanco, in the Molleturo area of the Cajas Nature Reserve. It was a ...
On July 27th, the Maya Mam community of Nuevo Amanecer celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of their town and twenty years of successful democratic self-governance. Through the celebration, ...
In 2012, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a twenty-year ban on mining surrounding the Grand Canyon National Park. It was one of the biggest wins for the environment that year. After ...
In the Tribal Belt of Central India, Indigenous communities are being manipulated, evicted and impoverished in the name of conservation ...
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“We are surrounded,” complains Bernardo*, a Barrancón resident. “Above, coming from San José del Guaviare, is the military base, which invaded our territory and has left various victims due to ...
The extinction of indigenous people would also be the end of Mexico as a nation, warned Nahua lawyer Carlos González, member of the Indigenous Governing Council and National Indigenous Congress ...
The third anniversary of the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock passed by quietly earlier this month. With the pipeline construction industry booming across the U.S. and Canada, Donald Trump ...
Indigenous Peoples have been protecting biodiversity on Earth for thousands of years. Yet their rights are increasingly being eroded and they face multiple threats. This photo-essay gives you a ...
Over the past week, Nicaragua has erupted in protests. While this current crisis started over pension reform, its development has revealed far greater rifts. It appears Nicaraguans have finally had ...
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