WASHINGTON – Growing up amid the Peruvian Amazon’s raging rivers and rustling foliage, Julio Cusurichi Palacios learned at an early age how to balance nature’s vast possibilities with his own ...

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment. The announcement indicates the new ...

SAO PAULO – SAO PAULO (AP) — One of the ranchers convicted of masterminding the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang was scheduled to be released Wednesday pending an appeal of his ...

Erasmo Theófilo, a family farmer and defender of the riverine community and family farmers of Anapu, Brazil, has survived attempts on his life and received multiple threats from land grabbers. We ...

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment. The announcement indicates the new ...

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment. The announcement indicates the new ...