Hand-in-hand with indigenous and other local people, we apply the power of innovation and time-tested traditional practices to protect the forests and watersheds of tropical America.
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Legalization of Indigenous Territories in Colombia
Advances in the Consolidation of Biocultural Corridors.
Keeng Kumu: Indigenous Cartographer
The life and travels of an indigenous mapping expert
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
Explore magical landscapes and indigenous cultures of the Amazon.
Amazon Gold Rush: Gold Mining in Suriname
Learn about impacts of Suriname's primary driver of deforestation.
ACT President & Co-Founder Receives Humanitarian Award from Harvard Extension School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEG09oaKuCU&feature=youtu.be (Arlington, VA, May 28) Harvard Extension School has presented the 2019 “Michael Shinagel Award for Service” to Dr. Mark ...
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Why are they persecuting us?
Original article appears in El Espectador On this path of leadership, and as long as I can remember, I have ...
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Training Children and Youth as Bird Watchers of the Amazon-Andes Transition Region
The kindi, or hummingbird, is a spiritual messenger who always has something to tell us when he is present; that ...
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