Full Coverage: South America

20.11.2009 “Guyana suffers from a major problem - people think we are in Africa,” President Bharrat Jagdeo told a meeting on forests in London this week: he said he and the Ghanaian head of state sometimes received each other's mail!

19.11.2009 Guyana's groundbreaking forest conservation deal with Norway was to have been with Britain - but London showed little interest. President Jagdeo talks frankly about a project that is setting the pace for a forest agreement as part of the international climate negotiations.

19.11.2009 Guyana is set to become the first country to sign up for the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility - and become a test case for REDD, the forest forest component of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Bow how good is the Guyana project? President Jagdeo, NGOs and journalists discuss the pros and cons.

11.11.2009 In a striking example of successful community-based advocacy, a survivor of Peru's "dirty war" against terrorism has won election as the first mayor of Putis, a village that suffered one of the country's worst-ever massacres.

10.11.2009 The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world.

09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.

27.10.2009 Kayapó Indians are to hold a protest against a huge hydro-electric dam planned for Brazil’s Xingu River, one of the Amazon’s main tributaries.

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
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19.10.2009 The Akuntsu tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has lost its oldest member, Ururu, leaving the tribe with only five surviving members.

10.09.2009 One hundred days after the "Amazon’s Tiananmen", international pressure on Peru's government to overhaul its relationship with the country's indigenous population is mounting.

07.09.2009 It's said to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography, and it makes an excellent documentary, says Daniel Nelson.

07.09.2009 A giant Anglo-French oil project in Peru’s Amazon is at risk after the country’s Indians launched a court bid to stop it.

02.09.2009 The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on indigenous peoples’ land without their "informed consent".

26.08.2009 A group of Peruvian protestors, arrested and accused of "terrorism" after campaigning for the rights of local people to have a say over a planned mine, have finally been released

26.08.2009 An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named the "most racist article" published in the last year by the mainstream media.

21.08.2009 Containers of waste which were alleged to have been illegally exported from the UK to Brazil last month are due to arrive at the port of Felixstowe today (Friday).

13.08.2009 The Venezuelan president's attempt to control the media has hit a wall of Twitter protest. Guardian

12.08.2009 The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts' fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.

05.08.2009 An environmental group claimed another success in its campaign to save the Amazon when British shoemaker Clarks agreed not to source leather products from Amazon deforestation.

30.06.2009 Peru's government has given the green light to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just two weeks after more than 30 people died in protests against the exploitation of the rainforest.