La semana pasada los miembros de la recientemente creada Red Indígena de Permacultores de la Amazonía (RIPA) conocieron las plantaciones y laboratorios de un emprendimiento comunal para elaborar perfu...

"In a loud voice, say your name and make a movement!" my voice rang in that camp counselor sort of way. "I'm Lian", I proclaimed, with a grand shake of my arms and legs. I fully expected the following...

This has happened before. There is a small indigenous community along the banks of an Amazonian river. These people do not live a romanticized, utopian existence of costuming and feathers. They ride ...

It has been 50 years since their forest was cut down. To the Shipibo of Yarinacocha, the rainforest is a fading memory of their grandparents. They have only ever known grassland, where swidden agricul...

How do you get the Peruvian government to adopt best sanitation practices for rural Amazonia? Leading by example, of course...and partnering with UNICEF. As the regional forerunners in constructing ef...

The Kukama people have made a journey of more than 100 kilometers to have their voices heard. Arriving at their destination, government representatives with resolve to create solutions were nowhere to...

On June 19th a commission of Peruvian national and regional governments' representatives headed by Prime Minister Rene Cornejo met with an impressively well-organized indigenous organization in the na...

Walk with us. In rubber boots, in worn-out sandals, or barefoot. About one thousand Kukama Kukamilla people of the Marañon river basin, among them grandfathers and mothers with little children, walke...

Fernando Cauper is a 30 year old man living in the Shipibo community of Santa Clara. From a young age, Fernando's father instilled in him the value of leaving a legacy for future generations. As he gr...

Today, the courageous voices of the Amazonian indigenous federations are rising above the din of denial that has deflected corporate and state responsibility for crimes committed over the last 42 year...