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      'This Land Is Our Life': Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo People Defend Forest From Illegal Destruction in Peru

      More than 300 community members participate in La Guardia Indigena, protecting around 8 million hectares of one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth from logging, fishing, and coca growing.

      Olivia Rosane
      May 05, 2023

      The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing themselves to protect their ancestral forests and waters from illegal fishing, logging, and coca growing amidst conservation and development efforts from both the government and international nonprofits that they say are ineffective at best and actively harmful to Indigenous ways of life at worst.

      More than 300 members of the community participate in La Guardia Indigena—or the Indigenous Guard—that works from around 25 bases in the Ucayali region of Peru to protect around 8 million hectares.

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      Facing up to the Climate Reality

      Kaisa Kosonen
      Mar 25, 2014

      In what is expected to be a grim reading, the world's leading climate scientists will give their latest assessment about the dangers of global warming next week.

      They will warn us not only what damage the burning of fossil fuels is already causing across the globe, but also shed light on the future climate impacts we can expect during the lifetimes of children born today, depending on the choices we make now and in the future.

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