How diamond mining has re-shaped an Amazon tribe’s worldview: ‘Environmentalists will be disappointed by this’
Since then Brazil’s now $700m+ diamond industry has moved into the territory, completely changing the indigenous peoples’ way ...
Inside the ‘lost’ tribe of indigenous Amazonians charged with mass-murder of white treasure hunters
It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...
Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold
The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has ...
An Analysis Of The ‘Joe Biden Rainforest’ Memes
A video supposedly showing current U.S. President Joe Biden wandering off into the rainforest just went viral. Here's why ...
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Brazil airlifts starving Yanomami tribal people from jungle
Brazil has airlifted 16 starving Yanomami ... of committing genocide against the rainforest tribe. The government declared a medical emergency after hundreds of Yanomami children died from ...
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Indigenous Amazon women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction
JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates ... like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European ...
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How 40,000 Brazil nuts are collected deep in the Amazon
And now their industry is at risk because of low prices for their nuts and illegal clear-cutting of the rainforest. We visit the Apiaká tribe in Mato Grosso, Brazil, to see how it's using Brazil ...