Politics Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers Led by a teacher and a family farmer, 15 traditional communities living in public forests in Brazil’s Amazonas state earned official recognition and the rights to collective use of their territory in March this year, following a 16-year struggle.
Politics Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’ An area of forest larger than England could be cleared by 2050 in one of the best-preserved parts of the Brazilian Amazon, a new report warns.
