Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle for lost territory
3 weeks ago

Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle for lost territory

Associated Press  

An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests. The community celebrated a dramatic legal victory last year, when provincial Judge Simona del Socorro Torres Sánchez ruled that creating the park without their consent had violated their rights. Judge Sánchez has now ruled once again in the Kichwas’ favor, however, making a new order that the Kichwas should get their land back and benefit from the carbon credit sales. The Peruvian government and a nonprofit which runs the park, CIMA, have argued that too much time has passed for the Kichwas to make a claim, and that they are not truly Indigenous people.

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Their ancestral rainforest was ‘stolen’. Now Amazon indigenous community is fighting back – and winning
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Their ancestral rainforest was ‘stolen’. Now Amazon indigenous community is fighting back – and winning

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Indigenous community in …

Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers
1 month, 1 week ago

Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers

Wired  

In 2025, a small, indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for the first time in 80 years. Their return will drive a movement of indigenous peoples across the Amazon rainforest fighting for legal titles to their ancestral territories, and winning. Recently, however, the Siekopai have successfully challenged the legality of these titling laws—the …

Indigenous community wins, then loses, path to reclaim ancestral rainforest land in Peru
1 year, 6 months ago

Indigenous community wins, then loses, path to reclaim ancestral rainforest land in Peru

Associated Press  

A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appeals court in a move some legal experts called irregular. He said the court was “trying to weigh in on the substance of the matter when it hasn’t reviewed anything of substance, only the procedure.” Juan Carlos Díaz, also …

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon
1 year, 8 months ago

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon

Associated Press  

BRASÍLIA, Brazil — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor’s administration. Lula’s action was partial delivery on his promises to the Indigenous supporters and …

In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits
2 years ago

In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits

Associated Press  

SAN MARTIN, Peru — Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. “You can’t live off words.” A group of men pass in front of a sign for the Cordillera Azul National Park in the Peru Amazon, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. A river flows near the Chazuta community with the Cordillera Azul …

They’ve managed the forest forever. It’s why they’re key to the climate change fight
5 years, 2 months ago

They’ve managed the forest forever. It’s why they’re key to the climate change fight

LA Times  

The first time Mandy Gull visited Canada’s Broadback Forest, she was struck by the displays of delicate lichen. “We have to fight for the things that are at risk.” More than 600 indigenous communities live in Canada’s boreal forest, one of the last great swaths of intact wilderness on Earth. “Indigenous peoples generally have this worldview of relating in harmony …

Amazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight
5 years, 3 months ago

Amazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight

Associated Press  

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS RESERVE, Brazil — Deep in the Amazon rainforest, there is talk of a looming conflict over land. Tension over territory reached a new height after a surge in annual fires, usually set to clear land, devastated large areas of the Brazil’s Amazon region in past weeks. Brazil’s foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, said in Washington last week …

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