News stories by Sue Branford

  1. Indigenous Best Amazon Stewards, but Only When Property Rights Assured: Study

    - Inter Press Service

    Aug 20 (IPS) - "The xapiri have defended the forest since it first came into being. Our ancestors have never devastated it because they kept the spirits by their side," declares Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, who belongs to the 27,000-strong Yanomami people living in the very north of Brazil.

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