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By Laia Mataix Gómez San José del Guaviare, Colombia, Sep 5 (EFE).- Both in Colombia and abroad, Guaviare is infamous for deforestation and violence, but the southern-central department is fighting to preserve its biodiversity with innovative projects that show that it is possible to survive without cutting down the Amazon rainforest. “We have worked very …

By Laia Mataix Gomez San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, Aug 29 (EFE).- Although the Colombian government and dissident rebel groups prohibit deforestation in the Guaviare department, the Amazon jungle that once covered nearly every inch of that south-central region is slowly being burned, cleared and transformed year after year into an immense cattle pasture. Perfect …

Indigenous knowledge about sustainability and conservation helps the Inírida flower trade to flourish in Colombia.

INÍRIDA, Colombia –– Carolina Mora Gaitan takes one of the striking-looking flowers from the blue bucket lying at her feet and shakes off the excess water. Using a toothbrush, she scrubs away any trace of dirt and proceeds to peel away an unsightly brown leaf with a pair of tweezers. Sitting opposite, her daughter-in-law mirrors […]

On an island in the estuary known as Lagoa dos Patos, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, an old lady kept a treasure in her fridge. For years, it held a gift she had received at her wedding decades earlier: beans and pumpkin seeds. “She said she was going to give me the seeds […]

Leading Indigenous organizations across South America have now made an extraordinary public appeal for action.

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Plans to build highways through the Amazon rainforest are clear violations of pledges made in Paris to end deforestation by 2020. But the situation on the ground is not a one-way street.

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Peru is home to many Indigenous communities that don’t appear on official maps. Without government recognition, these communities’ existence rests solely on their community names and on the knowledge of the federations that represent them. This is the case for the community of Manco Cápac, in the Loreto region, in existence for 70 years but […]