The Gaia Amazon Fund

11/06/2012

In previous blog posts I presented some specific examples showing how indigenous knowledge can be a valuable resource for modern scientists in improving such things as agricultural techniques and conservation…Read More

11/06/2012

En esta sede se realizan talleres con capitanes, líderes e investigadores indígenas de la Amazonía colombiana. Es un punto de encuentro, dialogo y de formación para las comunidades indígenas de la Amazonía.

09/04/2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/amazon-forest-threat-is-greater-outside-brazil/2012/08/30/2d47c4b0-ee08-11e1-b624-99dee49d8d67_story.html

A relentless push in an arc of forest from Bolivia to Colombia and east to French Guiana should be a wake-up call, environmentalists say.

06/05/2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/opinion/this-forest-is-our-forest.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=this%20forest&st=Search

The people who live in threatened forests should have the ownership rights.

01/31/2012

Attacks by nomadic Indians highlight danger in volatile frontier zone Authorities are scrambling to establish security in a remote Amazonian frontier region following recent attacks by isolated tribesmen that have left one man dead and another wounded in the wilds of southeastern Peru. The attacks —...

01/10/2012

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01/10/2012

Mientras la multinacional canadiense Greystar remozó su nombre y no renuncia a explotar el páramo, investigadores de la región develan maniobras de franceses que quisieron hacer lo mismo en el siglo XVIII.

12/21/2011

Over tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples developed burn-control strategies to ensure the health and bounty of their landscapes. By setting small fires early in the dry season, the tinderbox effect – a thick accumulation of parched brush and grasses – was reduced. Through much of the twent...

12/14/2011

12/13/2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/dec/08/carbon-emissions-global-climate-talks?intcmp=122

Get a handle on carbon with our interactive map showing the current, historical and consumption emissions of nations

12/12/2011

http://www.truth-out.org/perus-top-indigenous-leader-says-industry-traffickers-behind-shaman-slayings/1323201142

Iquitos, Peru - It's been more than one month since Peru's government sent investigators to the Amazon to probe the brutal murders and mutilation of at least 14 shamans, traditional healers or medicos, of the indigenous Shawi people of Peru's northern border region near Ecuador.

12/11/2011

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/Politicians-Listen-to-the-Polluters-at-UN-climate-talks/

UN climate talks in Durban have ended the same way they began, in failure. Governments at the UN climate talks have chosen to listen to the polluters over the people and failed to reinforce previous climate saving measures and have steered clear of new global rules for tackling climate change.