Indigenous women leaders play a key role as defenders of their territories, biodiversity and ancestral knowledge. From their communities, they lead environmental restoration, collective health care, ...
Dozens of Indigenous women in Colombia’s Amazon are monitoring, managing, raising awareness and restoring a wetland ecosystem impacted by overfishing. After partnering with environmental organizations ...
One of the most important Indigenous organizations is fragmented, jeopardizing its objectives of protecting the Amazon and the Amazonian peoples who inhabit it. In January 2023, Fany Kuiru Castro, a ...
A meeting on the Church in the Amazon region took place in Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 19-22. (Credit: Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.) Listen SÃO PAULO – Five years after the Amazon Synod, members of the ...
Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, 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 ...
A wooden statue of a prengant woman in front of Amazonian members outside the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – A document released earlier this month showed ...