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In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant.

Story and photos by Katie Surma

When a Road Goes Wrong

By Georgina Gustin

A degraded area of the Amazon rainforest near Koatinemo Indigenous land in Brazil on June 12. Credit: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty Images

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees

Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Can Carbon Offsets Save a Fragile Band of Belize’s Tropical Rainforest?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Bitter Debate over Saving Forests

By Stacy Feldman

Deforestation Pushing Amazon to Its Ecological Limits

By Max Ajl

Poor Nations Will End Deforestation by 2030 if Rich Deliver Billions: New Copenhagen Text

By Stacy Feldman

Deforestation Deal, Copenhagen’s Supposed Savior, Hits New Low as Targets Dropped

By Stacy Feldman

Want to Save the Amazon? Try Looking Closer to Home

By Max Ajl

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