In an interview with Mongabay, Alessandra discusses what the prize means to her, the policy changes in Brazil, and the current crisis in the Munduruku territory.
Indigenous water protectors, environmentalists, Enbridge supporters and concerned citizens argued for and against the Canadian pipeline company’s proposed Line 5 replacement project.
Amazon Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia has fought against massive dam projects and the incursion of illegal loggers and miners onto her community’s lands. She explains why what’s at stake is the survival of her people and their millennia-old way of life.
Elders, legal observers and media have been detained as police advance into Gidimt'en territory where land defenders closed road access earlier this week in an effort to prevent drilling under a sacred waterway.
Almost two years after Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs issued an eviction order to the pipeline company, land defenders are now enforcing it along a remote forest service road
Coastal GasLink says more than 500 pipeline workers are stranded after a Wet'suwet'en clan blockaded access to two work camps in a remote part of northern B.C. along a 6.6 billion dollar gas pipeline route.
Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, talks with Yale Environment 360 about how climate change is hitting Native Americans especially hard and why protecting tribal sovereignty is critical for tackling the climate crisis.
