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The Colombian Constitutional Court and the Amazon Conservation Team join forces to bring the Court’s decisions to the nation’s ethnic communities
Bulletin No. 44 Bogotá, March 27, 2020. The Colombian Constitutional Court and the Amazon Conservation Team will work together to share with the nation’s indigenous communities the guarantees and protection of their rights, as well as the jurisprudence that the Court has developed in defense of their interests. Alberto Rojas Ríos, the President of the…
Read MoreLa Corte Constitucional y Amazon Conservation Team unen esfuerzos para llevar las sentencias y decisiones de esta Corporación a las Comunidades étnicas del país
Boletín No. 44 Bogotá, 27 de marzo de 2020. El presidente de la Corte, Alberto Rojas Ríos y la directora de Amazon Conservation Team en Colombia, Carolina María Gil Sánchez, suscribieron un Memorando de Entendimiento interinstitucional para fortalecer la divulgación y el acceso a las decisiones de la Corporación por parte de las comunidades étnicas…
Read MoreUrgent COVID-19 Recommendations in Regards to Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation
Recomendaciones urgentes de COVID-19 con respecto a los pueblos indígenas que viven en aislamiento voluntario
Recomendações urgentes do COVID-19 em relação aos povos indígenas que vivem em isolamento voluntário
How Indigenous Lands are Being Titled in Antioquia
Source: Revista Semana December 15, 2019 Nine indigenous reserves have been established in Antioquia since 2016. The reason: the department’s Indigenous Management Unit (Gerencia Indígena), the Amazon Conservation Team and the National Land Agency joined together to support and promote their sovereignty over the territory of their communities. “When I arrived in these lands, I…
Read MoreAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM AGAIN EARNS COVETED 4-STAR RATING FROM CHARITY NAVIGATOR
The Amazon Conservation Team’s strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency have again earned it a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. This is the ninth time that ACT has earned this top distinction in the last 15 years. Only a quarter of charities rated by Charity Navigator receive the…
Read More960 individual specimens and more than 328 species of flora and fauna identified in the Serranía de Chiribiquete National Park
This document is an English translation of a press release from the Colombian National Parks System: October 29, 2019. This recording of new species resulted from a scientific expedition carried out in the Puerto Abeja stream basin and along the Mesay and Cuñare rivers, in the southern sector of the protected area in the department…
Read MoreLIMA DECLARATION: REGIONAL MEETING ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN ISOLATION
TERRITORIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMAZON AND THE GRAN CHACO Representatives of indigenous organizations and non-governmental organizations, indigenous leaders, researchers, academics and defenders of the rights of the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela and Suriname, signers of this declaration, met in Lima, Peru between October 10 and 11, 2019, to…
Read MoreWhat We Experience When We Walk Through the Mountains
What We Experience When We Walk Through the Mountains by María Fernanda Franco, Putumayo Process, ACT-Colombia Each time I have returned from an expedition in the territories in which we work, a mixture of joy and nostalgia has suffused me, because many sensations and lesson learned remain after our time there and our exchanges with the people. The expeditions present the possibility of becoming familiar with the territory in which we work (and that we…
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