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Proof of life: tracking elusive Amazon group to save their land
AFP, Published on 24/07/2025
» KOATINEMO — A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.
Jihadists kill at least 40 farmers in northeast Nigeria
AFP, Published on 13/01/2025
» KANO (NIGERIA) - Jihadists have killed at least 40 farmers in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state in the latest violence to hit the conflict-wrought region, a government official said Monday.
The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» CARPATHIANS - Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania's Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads.
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."
Scientists fight to protect DR Congo rainforest as threats increase
AFP, Published on 07/09/2022
» YANGAMBI (DR CONGO) - A tower bristling with sensors juts above the canopy in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, measuring carbon dioxide emitted from the world's second-largest tropical rainforest.
Last member of Brazilian indigenous community found dead
AFP, Published on 30/08/2022
» BRASILIA: The last of his people, a Brazilian indigenous man known only as "the man of the hole" has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted tribe were killed off by ranchers and illegal miners, officials said.
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.
Police say British journalist and Brazilian guide shot in Amazon killings
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil: British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide, whose disappearance in the Amazon some two weeks ago sparked an international outcry, were killed by gunfire, Brazilian police said Saturday.
Another suspect detained in British journalist's killing in Brazil
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A suspect in the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide turned himself into police early Saturday, officials said, a day after investigators confirmed that remains found buried in the Amazon were those of Phillips.
Remains of British journalist Dom Phillips identified: Brazil police
AFP, Published on 18/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - Brazil's Federal Police said Friday it had officially identified the remains of British journalist Dom Phillips, who was found buried in the Amazon after going missing on a book research trip.