UNESCO’s World Heritage list is being taken advantage of; culture is being used for political and economic ends.Read the full article
The Wayúu are the largest indigenous community in Colombia, one of the world’s most ethnically diverse countries. They live on isolated farms in La Guajira, a desert region on the border with Venezuela. Their traditional way of life is at risk from drought, local corruption and the absence of the [...]Read the full article
“Guiana is thirty years behind the rest of France. This has to stop! The social implosion we have been warned about for decades is happening, right now.”Read the full article
Farmers and scientists in Peru are exchanging tradition and science with a view to mitigating the impact of climate change and, by so doing, are taking part in sustainable development goals across the planet.Read the full article
Discrimination against women, LGBTI people, indigenous peoples and other groups continues unabated in Paraguay, in the absence of legislation penalising racism, segregation or homophobia.Read the full article
‘’Sometimes things need to fall apart before they can be put back together again, and I feel like that’s where we are right now with the Trump presidency.’’Read the full article
“Given the historic debt the state has towards our peoples, the best payment the state could make is education”Read the full article
It is not the Amazon that is suffering the world’s most rapid rate of deforestation, but the second largest forest in South America: Gran ChacoRead the full article
The devastation left by the fire is everywhere: on the ground, on the walls of the houses, but above all, in the spirit of the people. The Shipibo community of Cantagallo, a district in the north of Lima, is still dazed by what has happened to [...]Read the full article
“If the government wants to mess with us, we will mess with them”Read the full article
Murdered Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres joins a long list of environmentalists in the Americas killed for their activismRead the full article
