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Brazil: ‘zero deforestation’ push
Greenpeace sent 1.4 million signatures to Brazil's congress demanding a "zero deforestation" law—while cattle and timber barons push a bill to further open indigenous lands.
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Peru declares ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’
Peru's government designated as a national park the vast Sierra del Divisor area of the Amazon rainforest—but will it really be able to police the remote territory?
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Brazil: indigenous activists disrupt fracking auction
Indigenous leaders and activists interrupted an auction of oil and gas exploration blocs in Rio de Janeiro, seizing the stage to discuss climate change and indigenous rights.
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Bolivia: Guaraní denounce ‘parallelism’ strategy
Guaraní leaders at Itika Guasu say Bolivia's government has used rivalries over oil revenues to instrument a split and impose a new "parallel" leadership over the community.
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Canada rules for Ecuador villagers in Chevron case
Canada's high court ruled that Ecuadoran villagers seeking to enforce a multi-billion dollar judgment against Chevron may pursue the case against the company's Canadian subsidiary.
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Brazil: Guarani leader slain by gunmen
A Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous leader was shot dead in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state, one week after his community occupied part of their ancestral lands usurped by ranchers.
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Peru: indigenous protesters occupy oil installation
In new protests over the Bloc 192 oil-field in the north Peruvian Amazon, some 20 indigenous Achuar and Kichwa warriors occupied the local air-strip of multinational Pluspetrol.
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Bolivia: police attack indigenous roadblocks
Bolivian National Police used batons and tear-gas to break up a road blockade launched by Guaraní indigenous residents to protest gas exploitation on their traditional lands.
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Brazil: indigenous activists occupy Justice Ministry
Some 100 Guarani activists launched an occupation of the Justice Ministry building in Brasilia, demanding action on demarcation of ancestral lands usurped by ranchers and agribusiness.
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Peru: plan to ‘contact’ isolated tribe draws protest
Indigenous advocates are urgently opposing a plan by Peru's Culture Ministry to establish "contact" with an isolated band in the Amazon under pressure from illegal loggers.
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Peru: Amazonians suspend dialogue over oil bloc
Citing a lack of cllarity from Peru's government, traditional leaders of indigenous peoples suspended dialogue in the "consultation" process over oil operations in the Amazon.
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Bolivia: government divided on Amazon road project
Over the objections of members of his own cabinet, President Evo Morales now says he will revive an Amazon highway project that was suspended after a wave of angry protests.