Clean and Healthy Communities Throughout 2011 we have seen steady advances with our Community Based Solutions in waste management. The project, Clean and Healthy Communities – Integrated Community Waste Management has initiated activities with three new communities. Nueva Samaria, Roya, … Continue reading Update on Community Based Solutions – Dec 2011
One of the principal aims of Alianza Arkana is to help preserve the culture of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, especially the Shipibo-Konibo. A key medium to achieve this is through education. Since January 2011, Alianza Arkana has … Continue reading Education in the Amazon – an Update on Alianza Arkana’s Education Program
One of the principal aims of Alianza Arkana is to help preserve the culture of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, especially the Shipibo-Konibo. A key medium to achieve this is through education. Since January 2011, Alianza Arkana has … Continue reading Education in the Amazon – an Update on Alianza Arkana's Education Program
Multinational dam-builder Odebrecht has ditched its plans to build the Tambo 40 hydroelectic plant on Peru’s Rio Tambo. The Brazilian company said that its decision was taken ‘out of respect for the views of local populations’ trying to defend … Continue reading Victory for Asháninka against Amazonian dam-builders
One would assume its native inhabitants might enjoy at least some of the same official focus and respect given to the Amazon Rainforest as it was nominated one of the “Seven Wonders of Nature” this week on the international scene. … Continue reading Seeing an Abusive Oil Industry through Indigenous Eyes
When an Argentinean oil company spilled hundreds of barrels of oil into the Rio Marañon in June, 2010, crude and chemicals gushed downstream and seeped deep into the wetlands and lakes and lowland farming plots of the local communities along … Continue reading Amazon Leaders Describe 40 Years of Oil Exploitation
Converging here like the rivers they represent, indigenous leaders from throughout the region of Loreto gather in Iquitos this week to testify publicly to the consequences of 40-years of oil exploitation in Loreto, the largest region in the Peruvian Amazon, … Continue reading To Denounce, not Celebrate: The 40th Anniversary of Oil Production in Loreto, Peru
