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Heirs of the Boa: traditional dances of the Murui-Muina people (video)
Herederos de la Boa is a short documentary film that highlights the cultural richness of the Murui-Muina people of the Puerto Sabalo – Los Monos indigenous reserve of the Colombian Amazon.
Read MoreWater, Wildlife and Hope: Rejuvenating a Kogi Sacred Site
After years of planning, designing, acquiring materials, developing infrastructure, laying and burying 1,200 meters of pipe, and testing water quality and functionality, the seemingly impossible was achieved.
Read MoreColombia, Brasil y Perú: Una mirada al estado de los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento
Es un hecho que existen y son miles, no se les ve porque viven en los lugares más recónditos de la Amazonía. Se trata de los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial (PIACI), una población numerosa que por haber permanecido durante mucho tiempo fuera del contacto con la cultura occidental, trae consigo una serie de desafíos porque su avistamiento es cada vez más común.
Read MoreDrilling for drinking water in remote Sipaliwini, Suriname
In May 2016, Roché Bhola, one of ACT-Suriname's field station managers, traveled for several weeks to the Trio indigenous village of Sipaliwini together with Dr, Anthony Druiventak, geology professor at Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Joanne Perk, a student from the department of mineral resources at the same university. Sipaliwini is one of…
Read More3000 Rivers: Voices in the Jungle by Victor Gama
‘3000 Rivers’ is a multimedia opera that reflects on the accelerated environmental destruction that occurs in the tropical forests of the Colombian and Brazilian Amazon, the Pacific Coast and the Andes Mountains. The piece is based on field work carried out in these ecosystems over the past four years and reveals the reality of the negative environmental and social impacts through the testimony of its inhabitants.
Read MoreCuando la música fluye
“3 mil RÍOS: Voces en la Selva”, una creación del compositor Víctor Gama inspirada en el texto “Cariba Malo” de Roberto Franco, es una ópera multimedia cantada a través de las historias de personas que habitan los bosques tropicales de la Amazonia colombiana y brasileña, la costa Pacífica y las montañas de los Andes.
Read MoreTrio Community and Universities Join Forces to Monitor Forests
The 2016 fieldwork for ACT’s joint project with the University of Utrecht and Surinamese universities is right around the corner. Since 2015, in southern Suriname, ACT has been conducting research in the Trio indigenous village of Kwamalasamutu, focusing on topics defined by the community.
Read MoreTico Torres, an ACT Board Member: "Change Begins with the Children"
Late last month, the Amazon Conservation Team organized a trip to Kwamalasamutu in Suriname for friends of the environmental organization. This was carried out as part of its twentieth anniversary in Suriname. Among the group of visitors from the US was a world-famous artist, Tico Torres, drummer for the legendary rock band Bon Jovi.
Read MoreAn Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips
You can delve into Schultes’s immersion in ritual and medicinal plants through the newly launched Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes, from the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), itself dedicated to working with indigenous people in the Amazon on ecological issues.
Read MoreEl mapa interactivo que muestra los viajes de Schultes por el Amazonas
El Amazonas del que conoció durante un recorrido mítico Richard Evans Schultes está a un click de distancia: uno podrá internarse en la selva, conocer tribus indígenas, sus conocimientos, aventuras a lo largo del río y la selva. Plantas alucinógenas y medicinales.
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