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Brazil's Supreme Court suspends permit for major Amazon gold mine

Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest

The Independent UK · Oct 21

In Brazil’s Cerrado region, Indigenous fire practices reshape wildfire strategy

Brazilian environmental officials have followed a zero-fire strategy for land management in the Cerrado savanna in central and northern Brazil

The Independent UK · Jun 7

Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025

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Moment young indigenous man makes contact with outside world after wandering from isolated tribe in Amazon

Brazil said it does not actively seek contact with these groups but instead establishes protected areas

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2025

Moment boy from isolated tribe emerged from Amazon Rainforest and asked for fire

This is the moment a young man from an isolated indigenous tribe approached a populated river community in the Amazon.

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2025

In the Amazon, Indigenous women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction

Until recently, the Juma seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2023

‘We defended our right to the land’: Brazil’s Indigenous people hail supreme court victory

The Xokleng people of Santa Catarina state, after years of persecution, evictions and legal battles, have finally seen the rights to their ancestral lands endorsed by the state, with wide implications for other Indigenous groups

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

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Lexington becomes the home to the state's first Japanese company headquarters

Lexington’s government and business sectors are celebrating a first when it comes to corporate activity. The Funai Microfluidic Solutions firm has relocated its business unit headquarters to Lexington from Osaka, Japan.

WEKU · Aug 15, 2023

British reporter, Brazilian expert remembered a year after murder in Amazon

A year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira deep in the Amazon rainforest, friends, relatives and admirers gathered on Monday to call for justice and protection of Indigenous lands.

Reuters · Jun 5, 2023

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, vows Brazil’s Lula

President says last year’s killings were result of ‘encouragement of anarchy’ in Amazon under Bolsonaro

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2023

In the Amazon region where pair was killed, neglect and allegations of harsh justice

One year after the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, some people in the remote Javari Valley region of the Brazilian Amazon have seen their lives change, but not for the better

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2023

Former Brazilian officials charged over 2022 murders of British journalist, Indigenous expert

Brazilian authorities have charged the former chief of the country’s Indigenous protection agency for his role in the 2022 killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and renowned Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Tribune News Service · May 20, 2023

Brazil police accuse agency bosses of misconduct in Amazon murder case

Brazil's federal police recommended misconduct charges be filed on Friday against two ex-officials of Indigenous agency Funai in the case of a journalist and a native expert murdered last June in the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters · May 20, 2023

Ex-chief of Brazil’s Indigenous agency charged over murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips

Marcelo Xavier accused of indirectly contributing on the grounds that he failed to take steps to protect workers in Amazon

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2023

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Reuters · Apr 28, 2023

Brazil's Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine

Leaders of Brazil's Mura people said on Friday tensions have risen in the Autazes region where they live after a federal agency crew visited the area to discuss potentially demarcating their ancestral land, which overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.

Reuters · Feb 1, 2023

Brazil readies task force to expel miners from Yanomami lands, officials say

Brazil is preparing a task force of armed forces, police and government agencies to soon launch an operation to expel illegal gold miners who invaded the Yanomami indigenous reservation, officials said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - US · Dec 5, 2022

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

Activists are cautiously hopeful that the incoming president will bring relief to Bolsonaro’s forest-wrecking administration

Reuters · Sep 22, 2022

A wave of indigenous women run for Brazil's Congress in Bolsonaro backlash

A record number of indigenous leaders, most of them women, are running for federal office in Brazil's election next month, in a backlash against the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro.

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The Guardian - US · Sep 2, 2022

‘Last-chance saloon’: race to wreck the Amazon as prospect of Bolsonaro defeat looms

Activists suspect criminals are ramping up destruction in ‘last opportunity to deforest without having to pay the price’

The Times of India · Aug 30, 2022

Brazil: ‘Loneliest man in the World’, the last of his tribe, is dead now!

The ‘loneliest man in the world’ was recently found dead in the Tanaru indigenous region in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. If you are wondering what made him the loneliest man in the world, read on. Well, the man (name unknown) was the last remaining member of an uncontacted indigenous…

WEKU · Aug 30, 2022

The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus

The "Man of the Hole" lived in isolation and resisted contact for decades after the rest of his tribe was massacred. His death precedes Brazil's elections, where Indigenous rights are on the ballot.

The Guardian - US · Aug 30, 2022

‘Bolsonaro’s to blame’: Indigenous rights champion on crisis in Brazil

The veteran explorer Sydney Possuelo says the far-right president has promoted a ‘deliberate policy’ of violence and land invasions

ABC News · Aug 29, 2022

'The Man of the Hole' dies in Brazil after decades of solitude away from civilization

The Indigenous man, whose name was not known, resisted all forms of outside contact for the past 26 years.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022

Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe

Man resisted all attempts to contact him, laying traps and firing arrows at anyone who came too close

The Guardian - US · Aug 22, 2022

Amazon forest guardians fulfil Bruno Pereira’s mission of Indigenous exchange

Pereira, who was murdered alongside British journalist Dom Phillips, planned to lead an Indigenous delegation 2,500km across Brazil to learn from veteran fellow defenders

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