A couple months ago, most visitors to the Shipibo community of Santa Clara would have remarked on the sorry state of the primary school campus. A combination of persistent absenteeism on the part of...
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There is a growing problem in Amazonian communities: the build-up of plastic and unrecyclable trash.
Communit...
Developing an innovative model of education that honors and promotes indigenous traditions, knowledge, and wis...
In 2013, after decades of protests by the indigenous populations, government testing finally confirmed the dev...
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Santa Rosita de Tamaya Tipishca is on its way to becoming the first Shipibo community with full ecological sanitation. Located 7 hours by boat north of the city of Pucallpa on the Abujao River, Sta...
Memories of 14 days of Climate Change Top by Alianza Arkana’s Social and Enviromental Justice Team No commitments, no change We all know by now that no breakthrough was reached during the 20st Cli...
“We need an answer now. Will an independent report on the contamination and necessary remediation of our territories be guaranteed or not?“ insisted Aurelio Chino Dahua, President of the indigenous fe...
Conversations between friends two months after his assassination for defending the forests and territories of the Ashaninka people in the Peruvian Amazon. On September 1, the illegal logging mafia ...
Conversaciones entre amigos a dos meses de ser asesinado por defender los bosques y territorios ashaninkas en la Amazonía Peruana Este último 1º de setiembre, presuntamente la mafia de la tala ileg...
With the signing of a final act with Pluspetrol Norte SA last Saturday night, the indigenous communities of Nuevo Andoas and Capahuariyacu, supported by their indigenous federation FEDIQUEP, put an ...
Remediation measures include prevention, and that means changing the 40+ year-old pipelines in oil block 8X, situated in the Kukama peoples' territory and within the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, o...
Water is life. Water is essential to every living being and is especially important to the Kukama peoples of the Marañón River in Loreto, Peru. Often called the people of the water, the Kukama have be...
Smokey, indoor, earthen-stove constructs and open fires have filled the stomachs of Shipibo for generations. But lately this way of life is changing. As the firewood-generating forests of their grandp...
