Peru’s government secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports are illegally felled, according to a WikiLeaks cable—amid concerns of illegal loggers encroaching on indigenous lands.
National Police opened fire on a roadblock by small-scale unlicensed miners in Peru’s Amazon region of Madre de Dios, launched to protest a crackdown that included aerial bombardment.
Peru’s security forces cracked down on illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios, with army troops putting several dredges on the region’s rivers to the torch.
A Brazilian judge ruled in favor of local indigenous groups, blocking President Dilma Rousseff’s plans to move ahead with construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam.
Chevron says it will appeal a ruling by a court in Ecuador ordering the company to pay $8.6 billion in damages for the pollution of large areas of the country’s rainforest.
Indigenous protesters rallied in Quito to demand the release of three leaders of the Amazonian Shuar people who they say are being framed in the death of a Shuar teacher killed by police.
The Hunt Oil-led consortium that operates Peru’s massive Camisea gas field is deadlocked in royalty talks with the government—raising questions about plans for massive expansion.
A new study in the journal Science indicates the growing frequency of severe droughts in the Amazon could make the world’s biggest rainforest a net emitter of greenhouse gases.
Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) has released new photographs of an isolated tribe living in a remote rainforest region near the Peruvian border.
Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA issued a construction permit for the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon—in a move called illegal by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has agreed to hear the land rights case of indigenous peoples in the Raposa-Serra do Sol region of the Brazil’s Roraima state.
As oil companies with pending contracts in the Peruvian Amazon continue to deny the existence of indigenous “peoples in isolation” in remote forest areas, new video evidence has emerged.
