Meet the Indigenous Women Protecting Peru’s Amazon Rainforest

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...
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For sustainable livestock farming bordering the Amazon Rainforest, look to the women

Women near Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest highly value trees on their small livestock farms. Better integration of what motivates farmers to conserve the environment could improve the odds for ...

With only 3 women left, an Amazon tribe faced extinction. An unexpected birth now brings hope

With only 3 women left, an Amazon tribe faced extinction. An unexpected birth now brings hope - Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a governmen ...
Mongabay

‘Indigenous women in the Amazon must be empowered’: Interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new book Seremos Jaguares (We Will Be Jaguars) by Indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo is the memoir of a woman who fought against large oil ...
Newsday

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

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that there ...