A Swiss research group warns that climate change threatens roughly 30 percent of edible and medicinal plant species used by Amazonian Indigenous groups. Amazonia harbors more than 10 percent of the ...

Indigenous lands tenure in the nine Amazon basin countries and the resources related to them were among the issues discussed in depth on the third day of the Indigenous Amazonian Regional Summit that ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a holistic perspective, including people, wildlife and the ecosystem. "In recent ...

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The Peruvian Amazon is a land rich in biodiversity and home to 51 Indigenous peoples. Here, the voices of youth resonate—youth who, with profound respect for their roots and their eyes set on the ...

The Women’s Center held an event on Friday Sept. 27, 2024. Photo by Blake Sykes/The Daily Campus. The UConn Women’s Center hosted a talk by the Departments of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and ...

Three key Amazonian Indigenous organizations have issued an unprecedented joint statement, accusing the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of deliberately delaying a decision on whether to withdraw ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Although used for centuries by the Cacua Indigenous people in Colombia, the táam palm was, until recently, unknown to science. During fieldwork in ...

Archaeologists documenting tens of thousands of rock art motifs in the Colombian Amazon have been consulting with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists to help interpret their meaning. Ochre ...