4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1693+ words) MADRE DE DIOS, Peru — “Bayolet, my little daughter, had some tests when she was five years old,” says Gladys Ordoñez, a mother from the Shintuya Indigenous community, located on the banks of the Madre de Dios River, in the Peruvian…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1750+ words) Because of that, the Beni River is perceived in two ways: As a source of subsistence for the communities but also as the center of all their ills. According to Óscar Campanini, director of the Center for Documentation and Information…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (954+ words) NAGAN RAYA, Indonesia – Two weeks after government and law enforcement leaders vowed to crack down on illegal gold mining in the semiautonomous Indonesian province of Aceh, local communities on the ground say excavators are still at work in the forest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (886+ words) The Philippines is moving to accelerate critical-mineral development across millions of hectares of land, raising concerns that expanded mining and faster permitting could put pressure on forests, ancestral domains, and Indigenous communities’ ability to give or withhold consent. Executive Order…...