Monitoring & Mapping

“Look at those fresh boot tracks… these are not from one of us,” says a member of the Siekopai land…

For centuries, the Siona, Secoya, Kofan and Waorani have fallen prey to laws imposed by outsiders eyeing their natural resources….

Imagine a forest people who can no longer obtain their daily necessities of traditional life from the forest environment they…

The Waorani lived as semi-nomadic hunter gatherers and defended one of the largest indigenous territories in Ecuador well into the…

Alongside other global partners, AMWAE is working on a cacao production and organic chocolate manufacturing initiative. The project serves as…

Shamanic ceremonies driven by ayahuasca or yagé – an admixture prepared with Banisteriopsis caapi — are a fundamental component of…

The water program began with a question posed to members of the indigenous nationalities affected by oil contamination in the…

Every day, the frontlines of industrialization and colonization in the Amazon encroach deeper, trespassing into remote areas that once were…

The Amazon rainforest, according to climate-simulation models, could become savannah by the end of this century if current climate patterns…

Buena Vista is a Siona community located in the Colombian Putumayo, a few meters from a river crossing in Ecuador….

Grandmother Aurora is one of the oldest Siona women in the entire Cuyabeno region. Not long ago, she sat facing…

Lagarto Cocha, an area of flooded forest, shoreless lakes and vast sunsets, is the place of origin and ancestral home…