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Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found. The discrepancy results from differences in deforestation rates between the two […] 
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"Western medicine is the most sophisticated system of healing ever devised, but it's still got a lot of holes in it."
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Development can’t be halted, but it can happen humanely and intelligently.
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In our quest to promote Amazon awareness, it is great to see this editorial feature in the Sunday NYT.
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Sergio Polignano, on behalf of Forest Trends
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“Indigenous communities need to safeguard 20 million hectares in order to slow the climate crisis...Peru lost 246,000 hectares to deforestation in 2012, twice the previous year’s total, as expanded agriculture and logging of hardwoods hacked away at the forests’ ability to contain global carbon emissions...With the world’s fourth largest share of tropical forests and 10 to 15 percent of the planet’s species, Peru is especially vulnerable to climate change."
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With the world’s fourth largest share of tropical forests and 10 to 15 percent of the planet’s species, Peru is especially vulnerable to climate change
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Local ownership gives tropical forests a boost in sequestering CO2
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International Business Times UK
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Amazon's tribes are using the glare of publicity to ask the world to help save the Amazon rainforest.
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As new roads bring farmers to Peru's central Amazon, boosting indigenous incomes may help them stem deforestation
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Studies in the Amazon have found that indigenous territories tend to serve as a buffer against deforestation - let's keep it that way!
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Monitoring the populations of “uncontacted” tribes via Google Earth satellite images may be a noninvasive way help insure the survival of indigenous Brazilian villages.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Awesome!
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Brazil is rushing ahead with big economic development plans. It will host the soccer World Cup later this year, and the Olympics two years later. But all that progress is challenging the traditions — even the way of life — of the country's indigenous people.
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Repsol wants to mine in the same area an indigenous group live in voluntary isolation.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Repsol wants to mine in the same area an indigenous group live in voluntary isolation - not all that far from our Amazon study sites!
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Saving The Last Of The Cannibals In The Sistine Chapel Of The Amazon ...
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Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and climate change. Interactive calendar, traditional knowledge. Work of Instituto Socioambiental - ISA with the team of InfoAmazonia. The infographics bring together river level and rainfall measurements and the seasons of the year as informed by indigenous researchers of the region, together with the names of the astronomical constellations as identified by Tukano elders. Click here to edit the content
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This is pretty darn cool!
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Native groups in a remote corner of Peru just took over 14 oil wells for a month.
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Satellite monitoring could help keep tabs on indigenous people without invasive visits to their remote homes
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How To Shoot An Amazonian Blowgun
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This post just in from one of our 2014 Amazon Workshop participants, Laurel Allen from the California Academy of Sciences!
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One of the world’s last isolated tribes has ‘emerged’ from the forest. Is it to make contact, or have darker reasons forced them out? Rachel Nuwer investigates.
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Excellent article. Another great resource is the book "Uncontacted" by Scott Wallace.
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In 2008, images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil created ripples. With bodies painted in bright colors, members of the tribe aimed their arrows at a Brazilian government plane flying overhead, occupants of which were attempting to photograph the tribe to prove their existence. Now, a new study has found another way to survey such tribes safely and remotely—using satellite images.
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With the start of the World Cup just days away, protesters from the Kayapo people of the Amazon join other indigenous people in clashes with the riot police....
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Carlos Sandi of the Shuar tribe calls on Peruvian government to clean up site contaminated by crude Indigenous protesters have occupied Peru's biggest oilfield in the Amazon rainforest near Ecuador to demand the cleanup of decades of contamination...
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Pressure from loggers, gold prospectors, and land speculators endangers many of the world's last remaining uncontacted indigenous communities.
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How did a huge island of green in the Amazon become a fortress against ranchers, loggers, and miners? Answer: indigenous tribes.
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"Deforestation is a key driver of climate change," said David Kaimowitz, director of Sustainable Development for the Ford Foundation. “The indigenous and traditional communities, with support from civil society, have created a groundbreaking solution to the problem of deforestation and global warming as well as a new model for sustainable development.”
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