Shipibo communities create Indigenous guard to protect Peruvian Amazon from deforestation

Drug trafficking, logging, oil palm plantations, oil spills, highways, illegal fishing, expanding Mennonite communities — in the Peruvian Amazon, there’s no shortage of threats against Indigenous peoples or their lands. But now the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people, living in the department of Ucayali, near the border with Brazil, have taken steps to protect themselves from the barrage […]

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An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

SAN ANDRES TUXTLA, Mexico —­­­­ “There are not many regions in Mexico that have been used for agriculture for about 4,000 years,” says environmentalist Antonio Carrillo as he walks along a dusty dirt road. It’s early morning in the Matacapan Valley in the state of Veracruz. The regular tropical rainfall and the fertile volcanic soil […]

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