Expedition confirms existence of uncontacted Indians

An expedition conducted by FUNAI (Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Department) has confirmed the existence of a group of uncontacted Indians in Maranhão state in the eastern Amazon.

Photo courtesy of Fiona Watson/Survival

If World Wishes to Save Brazil's Amazon It Has to Trust the Forest's People

The Renascer Extractive Reserve was created as a conservation area within the ZEE on June 5, 2009 after a decade of struggle. The communities of the region began lobbying for the creation of a reserve when major logging companies such as Madenorte moved into the region in the late 1990s, occupied the territory, and policed its boundaries with threats and violence.

Photo courtesy of Alberto Cesar/Greenpeace

Brazil on Tuesday declared new indigenous reserves in vast tracts of Amazon rainforest

The zones, amounting to 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles), will enjoy protected status for the 7,000 indigenous Brazilians living in them, according to the decree signed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

[Photograph by: Heribert Proepper/AP]

‘Man in the Hole’, lone survivor of Amazon tribe massacre, escapes ranchers’ bullets

He has lived alone in the jungle for decades, the lone survivor of an Amazon tribe massacred by Brazilian ranchers in their quest for land.

[Photograph by: Charles Thomas]

Amazon mega dam delayed following protests

The auction when companies will bid for contracts to build Belo Monte has been delayed owing to problems in acquiring an environmental licence for the project. If the licence is not granted by January, the construction of the dam will be further postponed, possibly until 2014.

[Photograph by: Eraldo Peres/AP]