Amazon

Viva Yasuní! …

We are gathering an audience of experts, including governmentrepresentatives, and members from the academic, Ecuadorian and NGOcommunities, and supporters of the campaign to discuss the role the UKcan play in saving Yasuní.…

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal _not_ to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns *Vanessa Baird*.…

Reports are filtering through of violence and death in the Peruvian Amazon as indigenous peoples resist the destruction of their homelands for resource extraction…

It’s not often I get a pang of grief from the mass media, but I gotone from the news of the sudden, premature death of Anita Roddick…

Blind to bloodshed, Peru signs big new oil deal...…

Legitimate indigenous protests against Peru’s latest free trade agreements have led to bloodshed following the Government’s decision to send in the military…

Gold miners in the Brazilian Amazon are destroying the Yanomami community’s home…

Peru is plagued by civil unrest in the wake of the Bagua massacre.…

What began as a show of support for Peru’s Amazonian peoples has evolved into a full-fledged civil uproar – with anti-government marches, protests and strikes.…