"Now that I have lived this experience, I have solidarity with other girls and I am not shy anymore. I'm a leader and I am happy!"-Karen, 14 years old Last week, fifteen girls in Puerto Firmeza commu...

Last week over 1000 indigenous people from a major tributary of the Amazon river gathered for a meeting in the northern Peruvian Amazon to hear about the government test results of oil contamination i...

Acodecospat/Puinamudt/Alianza Arkana Last week Peruvian governmental authorities released test results that prove alarming levels of contamination in Peru's largest national reserve, Pacaya Samiria. ...

Justice & Regeneration in the Amazon Celebrating a year of achievements!  2013 has gone by in a flash! At Alianza Arkana, it was a year of growth, learning, innovation and great ach...

By Shilpa Darivemula, Volunteer at Alianza Arkana The girls all sat in a circle and stared up expectantly at me. We were under a cool thatched roof in the school on a beautiful yet hot day in Puerto ...

As part of our mission to help strengthen and preserve the Shipibo culture, with its rich traditions, crafts and unique cosmovision, Alianza Arkana is helping create Shipibo professionals with strong ...

Argentine oil giant Pluspetrol Norte, the E&P firm whose irresponsible extractive activity in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon resulted in Peru declaring three environmental states of emer...

In the months of October and November this year, Alianza Arkana helped take an important step in providing intercultural education at the integrated pre-, primary and secondary school in the semi-rura...

Alianza Arkana is now building a new alliance with two Swedish organizations - the NGO 'Asociación Amazónica Sueca' and the Municipality of Harryda, a governmental organization at local level serving ...

Once again, Argentine oil firm Pluspetrol has been implicated in an oil spill in the long active and strategically important Lot 8X, located in the heart of one of Peru's biggest and most biodiverse p...