Multimedia/ June 19, 2024Amazonian Medicinal Plants: Yuquilla (Aña ëko)Yuquilla (aña ëko) Story by Judy Payaguaje To visit my parents in the Waiya community,… Read more omar
Media Coverage/ June 17, 2024Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again.This article was published by The Guardian on 16 June 2024 In 2019 I helped lead a movement that… Read more Nemonte Nenquimo - Waorani
Chronicles/ June 12, 2024We Are a Weaving of GazesWe Are a Weaving of Gazes Romelia Papue from the Kichwa nation and Manuela Omari… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Media Coverage/ May 27, 2024‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save itThe Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir Read more Amazon Frontlines
Chronicles/ May 21, 2024A Tapestry of Biodiversity: Guarding the Relations of the AmazonA home for sacred species Imagine: the sharp song of the pëëriri (nocturnal curassow) travels… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Multimedia/ May 3, 2024Our Voice is Ours: 7 Amazonian Indigenous women storytellers and the right to self-expressionIn our world, who gets to speak and who is spoken for? Whose stories are told and whose are silenced? Read more Amazon Frontlines
Where we workAmazon Frontlines and the Ceibo Alliance work on concrete initiatives with over 60 communities from the Siona, Secoya, Kofan and Waorani indigenous Nations in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Explore the Where We Work map to learn more about the past and present of these indigenous communities. Make sure to check out Communities with Stories to watch films or read first-hand accounts of our work with these communities, from clean water and solar energy, to territorial defense and cultural revival. Explore the map
Waorani: Mapping Ancestral LandsIn the face of mounting threats to their lands and livelihoods, Waorani communities have begun creating territorial maps of their forests that document the historic and actual uses of their territory, demonstrating that their homelands are not up for grabs.Whereas the maps of oil companies show petrol deposits and major rivers, the maps that the Waorani peoples are creating identify historic battle sites, ancient cave-carvings, jaguar trails, medicinal plants, animal reproductive zones, important fishing holes, creek-crossings, sacred waterfalls Explore the map
Secoya: Recovering Ancestral TerritorySince the 1941 war between Ecuador and Peru, the Secoya Nation has been separated by political borders and displaced from their ancestral homelands. Now they are working to reclaim their ancestral land and reunite with their families.Here is an interactive georeferenced map of Lagarto Cocha which visually displays Secoya ancestral settlements, ceremonial centers, mythological sites, ancient travel routes, and traditional forest uses. Explore the map
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