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Land Violence and the Indigenous Female Body: Mapping the Guarani and Kaiowá experience
By Anaclara Giurfa de Brito and Tarsila Iglecio.
With contributions Amelia Yates, Anna Magrì, and Sara Cano Diaz.
Edited by Jaqueline Aranduhá.
Don’t let partial views of human nature obscure our innate capacity to address the environmental crisis 
Arif Jamal
During the vortex of climate debate around Glasgow’s COP26, I was struck by a depressing consensus reached by some of the UK’s most prominent environmentalists: humans are innately destructive and psychologically inept when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Decolonising protected areas: Sapelli in eastern Cameroon
By Simon Hoyte
In 2018, the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar remarked:
We are facing modern problems for which there are no longer modern solutions
What he’s referring to is that the worsening ecological crises, created through Western knowledge systems, cannot be solved by Western knowledge systems despite being widely considered ‘advanced’ and ‘modern’.
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws & Jerome Lewis
Extreme Citizen Science Research Group
Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative articles in the media, and important reports on the relationship between conservationists and Indigenous peoples.
Violence, corruption, and false promises: Conservation and the Baka in Cameroon
Originally published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Simon Hoyte & Catherine Clarke
University College London & Forest Peoples Programme
Living in the forest
A new article on the consequences for biological and cultural diversity of sustainable development in the Congo Basin – just out in Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-sustainable-development-ravaged-the-congo-basin/
Indigenous peoples and scientists urge Europe to commit to real sustainable trade with Brazil
Carolina Schneider Comandulli
Extreme Citizen Science Research Group
Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability
Indigenous and environmental rights are under threat in Brazil from Jair Bolsonaro’s government. In a little less then 4 months in power, Brazil’s current President has managed to dismantle the country’s existing structures for the protection of environmental and human rights.
Jerome Lewis and Hannah Knox In Discussion
A recent discussion between CAoS co-founder Jerome Lewis and UCL Associate Professor Hannah Knox, in which they discuss public anthropology in the context of climate change and digital technology. This conversation takes place on behalf of Global Ethnographic, an online multimedia ethnographic journal.
CTI (Indigenous Advocacy Centre) and CAoS (Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability) win the Brazilian Newton Prize 2018.
Announced on November 13th 2018 in Brasília, the £200,000 Newton Prize for projects demonstrating the best science and innovation to address global challenges through partnerships was awarded to the project ‘Improving Guarani lives by restoring the Atlantic Forest’.
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