Amazon Conservation Team

Territorial justice is the reclamation of access to and stewardship and decision-making over ancestral lands, waters, and resources for #indigenouspeoples. Colonization has stolen and decimated #indigenous territory, displacing communities and devastating #ecologies and #biodiversity. 🌿     📢 Today, colonization takes the form of rapidly expanding unsustainable—and often illegal—extractive industries and industrial #agriculture. For communities, being forced off their lands is more than a material loss. It is an erasure of lifeways that steward the environment, and spells disastrous consequences for #nature. 🔥     💚 We work towards territorial justice by empowering communities to advocate for and uphold their #landrights. 🗺     📹 Learn more about our work supporting #territorialjustice in the #amazonrainforest in this short video, and visit https://lnkd.in/ez8C9eyS   #weareindigenous #indigenouspeoplesday #indigenousrights #worldindigenousday #collectiverights #indigenousday #rainforest #savetheamazon #savetherainforest #climatechange #landback 

True protection of nature begins with respect for those who know it best. 🌍✨ Their sustainable lifestyle has been passed down from generation to generation, thus preserving biodiversity and culture at the same time. #ProtectTheEssentials #Identity #Diversity #COP16 #PeaceWithNature

Every breath we take is linked to those who protect the essence of our planet. 🌱💧 Imagine if their only source of life became polluted. For them, river pollution and forest loss threaten not only their home, but also the vital thread of their existence. #ProtectTheEssentials #Identity #Diversity #COP16 #PeaceWithNature

🌿 Protect the forest, protect the future 🌿    From supporting Trio villages in Suriname to delivering solar lamps in Colombia and Peru, we make choices that improve the wellbeing of our partner communities and the planet.     This #NationalEstatePlanningAwarenessWeek, we invite you to reflect on planning for both yourself and the indigenous guardians of the rainforest. 🌎💚    Create a legacy that cares for your loved ones AND empowers communities to protect ancestral forests. Get started with our free, easy estate planning tool today!    🔗 MAKE MY PLAN: https://lnkd.in/daAGsVh2   #EstatePlanning #AmazonConservation #ProtectTheAmazon

🌱 In this age of unprecedented global chaos, there is a beacon of hope in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon: the Kapai and Aretina Guardians of Knowledge Center. This center is a community space to promote the preservation of indigenous plant medicine and cultural heritage.🌴 ⛰ On October 1, 2024, ACT and our indigenous partners inaugurated the Center in the village of Urunai in Brazil’s northern Tumucumaque region. The Center is an important milestone in empowering indigenous communities through cultural revitalization. Developed by the Tiriyó, Kaxuyana, and Txikyana peoples, it will strengthen indigenous healing practices and safeguard traditional knowledge. 📚 🌿 We are honored to support the Tiriyó, Kaxuyana, and Txikyana peoples on their journey to preserve their cultural and healing traditions for generations to come.🌱 ▶️ If you wish to learn more, please read our most recent blog! https://lnkd.in/eS-m4Cdv 📸: Amanda Lelis #traditionalknowledge #indigenousknowledge #Indigenousrights #Humanrights #Environmentaljustice #amazonrainforest #Rainforest #Amazonia

Today we honor #IndigenousPeoplesDay. 🌴💧🐾Indigenous peoples guard the world’s most #criticalecosystems. Their knowledge and wisdom are key to the #conservation of our planet’s most important resources. 🚨🌎The destruction of Indigenous lands and cultures continues today in new forms of colonization. From fires to mines, #Indigenousrights are under threat globally. In the #Amazonbasin, #Indigenousterritories are a last protective barrier against the rainforest’s destruction by agribusiness, mining, and oil extraction. 🐚 We must assure the protection of #ancestrallands and #fundamentalrights for the frontline defenders of our planet’s ecosystems. Our work is guided by close consultation with indigenous and local communities who have defined their priorities in the fight for #landrights and #conservation of their #ancestralforests. 💚🌴🌵 📸: By Green Child #Indigenouswisdom #NoplanetB #Indigenousrights #Humanrights #Environmentaljustice #Rainforest #Amazonia #Climatecrisis #Climatechange #Environment #Naturalresources

🔥❌ The Amazon, ravaged by more than 70,000 fires in 2019 and home to one million indigenous people is suffering record-breaking fires again.   🌴 Deforestation resulting from clear-cutting and burning for industrial agriculture and cattle ranching has left the Amazon more vulnerable to fires than ever. The loss of the forest is accelerating the impact of climate change in the region. 🌴   🌿 Continued deforestation and destruction wrought by the Amazon fires disrupts the delicate balance of ecosystems across the Amazon and South America, threatening its role in regulating the planet’s climate. 🌎🌱   🌱 Forest that is safeguarded in indigenous reserves and protected areas has been shown to reduce deforestation and fires. At the Amazon Conservation Team, partnering with indigenous and local communities to protect these forests is our mission. 💚   ⏩ To learn more about these fires in the Amazon, read Mark Plotkin's latest article at Mongabay News. https://lnkd.in/eBYBCdHG   #amazonfires #fires2024 #savetherainforest #indigenousrights

💚 Our support to AIDESEP (the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon) has enabled significant gains in the creation of protected areas for isolated peoples in Peru. AIDESEP helped to formally propose the creation of the Atacuari, Pupuña and Tamaya Abujao indigenous reserves, which are currently in the process of being created and together span over 600,000 hectares. 🌿 📸: AIDESEP #nocontact #peru #amazonia #peoplesinvoluntaryisolation #PIACI #protectionstrategies #biodiversity #climate #noillegalmining #illegallogging #peruvianamazon #amazoniaperuana 

🚨⛏️ Low savanna forest, known locally in Suriname as tiki-tiki busi, is one of the most threatened ecosystems in Suriname due to urban development, sand mining, uncontrolled fires and logging.🌱 In Suriname’s low savanna forest, indigenous peoples have a long tradition of using fire as a management tool. ⏩Learn about Suriname’s low savanna Forest through our video series “Forest Types of Suriname”, presented by Frits Van Troon, a Saramacca Maroon biodiversity expert and tireless advocate for the protection of Suriname’s forests. Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/eEPWvZhB #traditionalknowledge #Guianas #Suriname #ecology #forestry #trees #ecosystem #climate #highforestcover #lowdeforestation #Maroon #ecologicalknowledge #forest #rainforest #savanna #botany #botanical 

🪵 The Mashco Piro people, an indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon that chooses to live in isolation to defend their right to self-determination, have recently been seen by local communities and #humanrights campaigners close to an area where several logging companies have been granted concessions. 🌴     🚧 More recently, the Forest Stewardship Council suspended the certification of the logging company accused of encroaching on the traditional territory of the Mashco Piro in the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon. 🚧    This resulted only after at least one logger was reported injured in a confrontation with the Mashco Piro, further demonstrating a need for these forests to be protected from incursions.    🚨 Indigenous peoples in isolation in the Peruvian Amazon face threats from extractive activities encroaching on their territories. High rates of forest degradation threaten their survival and increase the risk of contact.    🍃 More than 25 different isolated indigenous groups inhabit the Peruvian Amazon. The creation of indigenous reserves and territorial reserves defends their rights to live in their traditional territories without contact. 💚     We stand behind efforts to protect the lifeways of isolated indigenous people in the #PeruvianAmazon. ⚖     📸 : Cedia, 2019    ❌ Read more through an article by Mongabay. https://lnkd.in/eNvdtM-s    #indigenousrights #humanrights #amazonrainforest #isolatedpeoples #pueblosaislados #PIACI #AISLADOS #amazonía #granchaco