A path used by the indigenous Pastaza Waorani people in Ecuador’s Pastaza province, winds through the Amazon rainforest, April 25, 2022

Amazon forest and climate change

<p><span>The Amazon rainforest is crucial to maintaining a stable climate on the planet - but continuing deforestation presents a major threat to the forest and indigenous communities who live there. What is being done to try to stem it?&nbsp;</span></p>

Members of the Aprocamp co-operative pick herbs at their garden in Pará, Brazil, January 18, 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Cícero Pedrosa Neto

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Jose Jansa, a governor of the Inga indigenous people, standing in a rural area in the province of Putumayo, Colombia. February 2, 2023

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A boy from the Indigenous Mura tribe, reacts in front of a deforested area in nondemarcated indigenous land inside the Amazon rainforest, near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, August 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

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Indigenous leader of the Celia Xakriaba tribe walks next to the Xingu River during a four-day pow wow in Piaracu village, in Xingu Indigenous Park, near Sao Jose do Xingu, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

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Papy walks through a swamp, looking for wildlife, as he hunts in the forest near the city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 3, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Nicolon

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Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacts at an election night gathering on the day of the Brazilian presidential election run-off, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mariana Greif

Lula's election promises rankle in Bolsonaro Amazon stronghold

Old and young indigenous people hold tracajá turtles at Jericoa, a sacred site with a confluence of waterfalls and rapids on the Volta Grande in the River Xingu, Pará, Brazil, September 16, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Dan Collyns

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A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro looks at her mobile phone after polls were closed in Brazil's presidential election, in Brasilia, Brazil October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

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Leaders from indigenous communities in the Amazon basin hold a news conference during a meeting where they demanded South American governments halt extractive industries that damage the rainforest, in Union Base, Ecuador

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An indigenous man of the Kayapo tribe observes logs left by loggers during a surveillance patrol

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Four members of the Mujeres Amazonicas coalition hold hands in a women’s center

Indigenous women battle growing Amazon violence with trauma center

Indigenous people attend a protest demanding justice for journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira

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A group of Kara Solar technicians work on a new solar-panel-powered river boat near Tena, Ecuador

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Dressed in traditional Shuar outfits, indigenous leaders Teresa Tupikia (left) and Margarita Jempekat (right), attend a special workshop about the mining threats in their communities

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Silvana Nihua, president of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza (OWAP) and leader of 30 communities of about 1,000 Pastaza Waorani people living in riverside villages, stands in pristine Amazon rainforest in the province of Pastaza, Ecuador, on April 26, 2022

In Ecuador's Amazon, indigenous forest defense gains legal ground

A gas flare burns in the middle of the Amazon rainforest near Lago Agrio, Ecuador. April 23, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Fabio Cuttica

In Ecuador's Amazon, youth take up the fight against oil pollution

A man stands holding the trunk of a tree in the middle of the rainforest

Colombia's Amazon indigenous groups train youth to defend rainforest

An indigenous woman is pictured carrying a basket supported with a strap over her head surrounded by the rainforest

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Lucio Matapi, 'captain' of the Puerto Libre community, stands in dense tropical rainforest near his community living along the Miriti-Parana River in Colombia’s southeast Amazonas province, December 16, 2021

Colombia's indigenous form 'mini-government' to save Amazon

A man stands on a fallen tree in the middle of a deforested plot

Two years on, forest pact's 'good intentions' do little to protect Amazon

A CCTV camera, installed on the boundary wall of a house is pictured at Vaikom in the Kottayam district of the southern state of Kerala, India November 23, 2017

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Internally displaced Somali woman Habiba Bile stands near the carcass of her dead livestock following severe droughts near Dollow, Gedo Region, Somalia, May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

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Displaced people walk towards the Syrian border near the town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate, Iraq, August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said

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Women coal loaders pose for a picture in Jharia coalfield, India, November 10, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Tanmoy Bhaduri

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