‘Hope for Indigenous peoples’: An unexpected birth could bring this Amazon tribe back from the brink

With only three women left, the Akuntsu were decimated by a government-backed land grab in the Amazon.View on euronews ...
Mongabay

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado

When a 2018 fire burned across 73,000 hectares (180,000 acres) of the Santana Indigenous Territory, located in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, the local Bakairi people waited helplessly for authorities who ...
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Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.
Boston Herald

With only 3 women left, an Amazon tribe faced extinction. An unexpected birth now brings hope

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of ...
Religion Dispatches

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil's Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

Not even three months after John Chau’s deadly venture in the Indian ocean, another American missionary has generated controversy over trespassing on protected indigenous land. Steve Campbell, a ...