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Yuturi ants are peaceful until their territory is threatened. This species, also known as the ‘conga ant,’ is considered a warrior in Amazonian Kichwa Indigenous culture, as these bugs don’t allow anyone to enter their home without permission — just like the women of Serena, an Indigenous community located on the banks of the Jatunyacu […]

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Lesly Mukutuy, 13, is credited with using ancestral knowledge to help keep her younger siblings alive during the 40 days they survived in the Colombian Amazon following the plane crash in which their mother perished

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Hanna Wallis is a filmmaker and journalist focused on resistance movements. She is currently directing a documentary in rural Colombia about an unarmed

Colombia national strike: Protests will take place throughout the country today, in spite of COVID-19 concerns.

Indigenous groups including the Guardia Indígena arrived in the capital in recent days ready to participate in the third national strike.

Rural communities that have lost leaders to targeted killings have taken to protecting themselves, and without the use of firearms.