This year, the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is celebrating 30 years of biocultural conservation, an approach that recognizes the protection of local and Indigenous knowledge…
Written by: Barbara Onkle Insights from Juan Carlos Cruz, Manager, Science & Conservation, ACT Ancestral Tides Program For nearly 30 years, the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) has partnered with…
Written by: Barbara Onkle When Indigenous students leave their communities to pursue higher education, they often face a difficult question: How can they gain new knowledge…
In the Indigenous community of Manacaro in the Colombian Amazon, women are helping to lead the work of territorial protection. Several times a week, Delia Gittoma, an Indigenous leader…
Written by: Barbara Onkle Sea turtles have traveled the world’s oceans for millions of years. They connect marine ecosystems across vast distances, helping maintain the health of…
Written by: Barbara Onkle How stingless bees are helping communities protect forests, preserve knowledge, and build sustainable futures When people think of bees, they usually…
Text by Méle Dornelas. Global discussions on climate, health, and development have increasingly pointed to the need to recognize knowledge systems that already exist within territories and…
Ati Villafañe grew up on Colombia’s northern coast, going between the city of Santa Marta and her ancestral village of Kutunsama, which for the Arhuaco Indigenous people means “the root of knowledge.” Ati is…
“I don’t have to choose between who I am, and where I am.” The following letter was written and read aloud by recipients of the…
Text by Méle Dornelas · Available in Portuguese. More than 800 seedlings are currently being planted across the territory through the collective work of the entire community. On Bananal Island (Tocantins, Brazil), the Ãwa people…