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Colombia Indigenous Community of Curare – Los Ingleses Partakes in Second Training Targeting Territorial Protection
With support from ACT, members of the Curare – Los Ingleses indigenous reserve participated in their second mapping/GPS training workshop, in order to strengthen the community’s conservation monitoring program that seeks to protect their territory and that of indigenous isolated peoples.
Read MorePeasant and Indigenous Communities Exchange Knowledge on Sustainable Native Tree Management in the Colombian Amazon
Representatives of indigenous and campesino communities from the Colombian Amazon, with support from ACT staff, participated last year in shared learning activities related to the sustainable management and use of native timber trees.
Read MoreForging New Paths with the Matawai
In September, ACT-Guianas staff visited the Matawai territory for a second time this year, to validate the maps that were produced on the basis of data collected during fieldwork in February and March. The team also went on a three day expedition to chart out a path to nearby Ebba Top mountain.
Read MorePlan Bee from Kwamalasamutu
In the indigenous village of Kwamalasamutu in southern Guianas, ACT has launched a pilot project to help the community members raise forest bees for income. The bees’ “bush honey” will be marketed in the nation’s capital city of Paramaribo.
Read MoreSorrow and Light in Rajasthan
Anna Nantawi and Ketoera Aparaka—women from indigenous villages of the nation of Guianas’s remote rainforest interior—are two months into their solar engineering training at the Barefoot College campus in India.
Read MoreCooperation to Assist Guianas’s Forest Communities
On October 8, 2015, Guianas’s Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle Breeding, and Fisheries and the Amazon Conservation Team Guianas signed a three-year collaboration agreement.
Read MoreTrio shamans honored by the Government of Guianas
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, the Trio shamans Riri Pinoma, Wuta Wajimnoe, and Amashina Oedematoe were decorated with the Honorary Order of the Palm by the President of Guianas Desiré Bouterse. This annual decoration ceremony had a special significance this year, as Guianas became an independent country exactly 40 years ago.
Read MoreThe government of Caquetá Focuses Resources on its Indigenous Communities
On November 12, 2015, the 10,181 indigenous inhabitants of the Colombian department (state) of Caquetá compiled all of their needs and their historically violated rights in a single document. After three years of work in this region, a first comprehensive indigenous public policy was approved.
Read MoreColombia’s Inga-Kamentsa Achieve Historic Territorial Expansion
In December 2015, with ACT’s assistance, Colombia’s Inga-Kamentsa people were granted governance rights over roughly 100,000 acres of their traditional lands. The community had laid claims to those lands for more than 300 years.
Read MorePushing Back Against an Amazon Gold Rush: Maps Lead the Way
“During a recent visit to rainforests of Guianas, I noticed that a particular problem is increasingly weighing on the minds of the Trio Indians of Kwamalasamutu village: some men are being seduced by the opportunity for pay in distant gold mining ventures, leaving the village for long periods of time and occasionally not returning at all.”
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