Tag: Indigenous Rights
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Amazon Rainforest on Fire
The Amazon rainforest is in a state of crisis. Deforestation has increased, along with the number and intensity of wildfires throughout the world’s largest rainforest. In April 2019, the Waorani Tribe of Equador won a landmark environmental protection case against a major oil company, setting legal precedent preserving indigenous land in the Amazon from deforestation […]