Brazil: Missionaries gain access to Amazon’s Indigenous peoples, despite pandemic
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports on the possible impact of new legislation allowing Christian missionaries access to Indigenous reservations…
FLYING HIGH: BRAZILIAN TRIBE KEEPS WATCH OVER FOREST WITH DRONES
FABIO TEXEIRA. of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Brazilian tribe is using new technologies to guard against deforestation…
Colombia’s Amazon tribes tap into rainforest protection funds
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Colombia is asking Indigenous Amazon tribes to suggest ways to spend more than $US7 million available to fight deforestation, the nation’s environment minister said this week, part of an international effort to protect the threatened rainforest. Involving native tribal communities is critical to saving the Amazon, which in Colombia covers about […]
INDIA: ENSLAVED FOR DECADES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FREED BY LAND TITLES
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…