André Baniwa is an Indigenous leader in the Upper Rio Negro region of the state of Amazonas, and spoke with Mongabay about school education, generation of income, Indigenous people in public life and ...
It was the Baniwa women who came up with the idea to sell the Jiquitaia chili peppers. They had already planted and picked the peppers in their own gardens in their communities along the Rio Içana, a ...
COVID-19 is devastating Brazil. It's already killed more than 22,000 Brazilians. And as NPR's Philip Reeves reports, there's a particular concern about its impact in the Amazon rainforest. PHILIP ...