Category:The Amazon

On the Ground in the Amazon: Jane Ferguson Talks with Tiffany Higgins on the Warao Migration

Category:Venezuela

Exclusive: These Indigenous Venezuelans are in the path of U.S. oil development. What will happen to them?

The Warao Indigenous people of Venezuela have migrated en masse due to pollution of their lands in the Orinoco Delta. Now the Orinoco Oil Belt is in the sights of U.S. oil development ambitions — and the Warao could be impacted again, experts say. Includes a video interview.

Category:The Amazon

Christmas note from an Amazonian River slated for explosions (audio)

A quick note from a reporting trip to the Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon. I visited Tauiry Village, where Brazil's govt. plans to install a construction site to blow up the rocky riverbed for 3 years. The traditional riverfolk who live there are fighting it.