Activists Deploying Recycled Solar Powered Cell Phones in Fight to Save Rainforests
Dylan Charles – The project is already a major win in the fight against wildlife poachers and illegal loggers.
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Oil Company Pulls Out of Amazonian Land Inhabited by Uncontacted Tribes
Vic Bishop – A small victory in the fight against corporate genocide and ecocide.
Ecuador’s Standing Rock is Happening Now – Can the World Save the Shuar?
Dylan Charles – Beyond Standing Rock, the world is in desperate need of environmental justice.
Why Corporate Media Won’t Tell You What’s Being Done to the Amazon
Dylan Charles – The world’s biggest advertisers cannot afford to tell us the truth.
Uncontacted Tribes Facing Extinction in Massive Amazonian Forest Fires
Alex Pietrowski – Fires started by illegal loggers are threatening to wipe out uncontacted tribes.
US Court says Ecuadorians Won’t Collect Here From Big Oil in ‘Biggest Environmental Case in the World’
Christina Sarich – A US courts just let Chevron/Texaco off the hook for $9 billion.
Peru Creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’ for Uncontacted Tribes & Endangered Wildlife
Rhett A. Butler – Peru sets up 3.3M acre reserve home to un-contacted tribes, endangered wildlife.
Preserving the Tribal Culture of ‘God’s Multi-Colored People’ of the Amazon
Andrea Davis – The call of the Amazon led me to this tribe who need our help in preserving their land and culture.
Mining the Heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s Gold Rush Claims More Forest
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa – In the Peruvian Amazon, a global craving for gold has changed life for local communities.
Precious Metals vs. Precious Life: Destruction of the Amazon
Sergey Baranov – The Amazon is home to countless species of plants, many of which have incredible curative properties which know no equal in the world.
Chevron Whistleblower Videos Allegedly Show Contamination Coverup
Mike Gaworecki – “These videos prove Chevron knew full well their ‘remediated’ sites were still contaminated before the trial in Ecuador had even finished…”
Brazil Arrests ‘Amazon’s Biggest Destroyer’
Rhett A. Butler – Authorities in Brazil have arrested a man they claim to be the single biggest deforester in the Amazon…
Massive Ancient Stone Face Revealed in the Amazon Rainforest
Jeremy Hance – Rising above a waterfall—and looking somewhat like the brooding stone faces of Easter Island or something out of the Lord of the Rings—this giant monument has long been known to the Harakbut people…
6 Striking Aerial Images Show How Deforestation Has Altered the Earth
Stefanie Spear – There’s no debating that humans have greatly scarred the Earth. And, there’s no better way to see the extent of that damage than via aerial images…
These Activists are Risking Their Lives and Using High-Tech to Stop Illegal Logging in the Amazon
Jeremy Hance – Activists are risking their lives and employing high technology to uncover illegal timber cutting operations in the Brazilian Amazon…
The End of the Amazon – Ecuador Approves Oil Drilling in One of the Most Biodiverse Regions on the Planet
Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times In 2007, Ecuador, a country already heavily invested in oil development, surprised the world by announcing the Yasuní ITT (Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) Initiative which aimed to indefinitely refrain from exploiting the oil reserves contained within one of the most biologically diverse regions of the Yasuní National Park, situated in the upper Ecuadorian …
Report Reveals Indigenous Human Rights Abuses by Corporations, Governments in the Amazon
Jordanna Dulaney, Mongabay Waking Times Regnskogfondet (the Rainforest Foundation of Norway) recently released a 52-page report entitled “Human Rights and Resource Conflicts in the Amazon.” The report took over six months to complete and gives an in-depth account of the conflicts activists and indigenous peoples (IPs) are having with corporations and governmental agencies. It relays …
Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ Protect Their Culture And Traditional Wisdom
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay Waking Times Tribes in the Amazon are increasingly exposed to the outside world by choice or circumstance. The fallout of outside contact has rarely been anything less than catastrophic, resulting in untold extinction of hundreds of tribes over the centuries. For ones that survived the devastation of introduced disease and conquest, …
Severe Oil Contamination Found in the Largest National Reserve in Peru
Stefan Kistler, Alianza Arkana Waking Times Last week Peruvian governmental authorities released test results that prove alarming levels of contamination in Peru’s largest national reserve, Pacaya Samiria. The park has been declared a “wetland of international importance” by international treaty and is part of Kukama Kukamilla indigenous territory. The contaminated waters are the source of drinking …
The Quicksilver Demon: Rogue Gold-Mining is the World’s Largest Source of Mercury Pollution
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa, Mongabay Waking Times In 1956, in the quiet seaside town of Minamata on the southwestern coast of Japan’s Kyushu Island, cats began to behave very strangely. They convulsed, displayed excessive salivation, and gradually lost the ability to walk. Then, dead birds began to fall out of the sky. Shellfish opened and decomposed. …