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Ecuador votes to stop oil drilling in Amazon reserve
AFP, Published on 21/08/2023
» QUITO - Ecuadorans have voted to stop an oil drilling project in an Amazon reserve, according to the results Monday of a referendum hailed as a historic example of climate democracy.
In Peru's Amazon, evangelical cult awaits Inca second coming
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» ISLANDIA (PERU) - In the heart of the Amazon, where Peru, Brazil and Colombia meet, members of a quirky religious mashup of evangelical Protestantism and Incan rites await the end times in their remote "Promised Land."
In Amazon region hit by double murder, poverty fuels violence
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - A short walk from the spot where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira set out for their final journey, people sit in the blistering sun breaking rocks into pieces with hammers.
Phillips and Pereira: killed trying to save the Amazon
AFP, Published on 20/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - Four years after they first went on an expedition deep into the jungle of Brazil's Javari Valley, Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira teamed up again, each working on a big new project to save the Amazon. It cost them their lives.
US missionary's body may never be recovered
AFP, Published on 24/11/2018
» PORT BLAIR, India: The body of the American missionary-adventurer John Allen Chau may never be recovered from the lost island where he fell in a volley of arrows fired by a reclusive tribe whose existence is threatened by the modern world, say experts.
Jungle tribe makes contact with outside world in Brazil
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 01/08/2014
» Fascinating video has been released by Brazilian authorities of an isolated Amazonian rainforest group making contact with the outside world.
Isolated Amazonian tribe makes contact with outside
AFP, Published on 31/07/2014
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Members of an isolated tribe have emerged from the Amazon rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a video released by Brazil's indigenous authority.
Brilliant Brazil
Muse, Published on 28/06/2014
» With the world having descended into a football-mad frenzy, the spotlight has fallen firmly on Brazil. Thousands of diehard sports fans have flocked to this year’s World Cup destination and after putting down Brazil by Regis St Louis, you’ll probably want to join them.