Silvana Nihua, president of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza (OWAP), travels along the Curaray River where indigenous communities reside in riverside villages in the Amazon province of Pastaza, Ecuador, on April 26, 2022

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The Amazon rainforest 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>

A road runs through a tract of burnt Amazon jungle near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 14, 2020. Creatures of the Amazon, one of the earth's most biodiverse habitats, face an ever-growing threat as loggers and farms advance further and further into the rainforest. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Pledges to save Amazon rainforest threatened by railways and roads

A slave descendant person, or a Quilombola looks on during a protest for recognition and support of Indigenous people in education and against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Government in Brasilia, Brazil October 7, 2021

Descendants of enslaved Africans seek land rights in the Amazon

Logs are seen in Bom Retiro deforestation area on the right side of the BR 319 highway near Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greet indigenous people upon their arrival at the event "Road to the Amazon Summit" in Leticia, Colombia July 8, 2023. Colombian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

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A rubber tree is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 17, 2014

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Macaws sit on a tree at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

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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

Brazil targets Amazon rainforest NFTs in win for indigenous people

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

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

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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

Indigenous Ecuadorans fight back as metal mining eats into Amazon

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

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 woman drinks water from a mug on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India June 9, 2023

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Women wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station during Rajasthan state assembly election in Ajmer, India, November 25, 2023

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Crops including coffee and rice are shown in orange on grey background in this illustration. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Karif Wat

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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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Governor of Brazil's Para State Helder Barbalho talks with Brazil's Indigenous Peoples Minister Sonia Guajajara during the Amazon Summit at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belem, Para State, Brazil, August 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Amazon summit lights way for Indigenous say in forest protection

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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