The impacts of the climate crisis on the health and ancestral knowledge of Indigenous women By Rudja Santos from Carta AmazôniaEdited by Méle Dornelas As COP30 brought the…
Written by: Barbara Onkle Curare is a plant-based arrow poison perfected over centuries by Indigenous peoples of the Amazonia. Applied to the tips of both…
Written by: Barbara Onkle Welcome, Young Rainforest Protectors! Caring for nature doesn’t have to be hard. Kids everywhere can help protect forests, animals, rivers, and even the…
Written by: Barbara Onkle A historic moment for Suriname’s Indigenous and Maroon communities. This December, traditional authorities from the Coeroenie and Matawai regions officially handed over their development plans—the Tareno Development…
From rainforest headwaters to coastal mangroves, 2025 was a year of quiet victories and powerful partnerships. Together with Indigenous and local communities across Central and…
Text by Méle Dornelas · Available in Portuguese. A historic mobilization marks advances in land demarcation and territorial protection. ACT stood alongside communities and helped…
Thousands of years ago, when jaguar populations were at their peak, they could be found hunting along the coasts across the Americas. After colonization, these…
Ednalva Rondon grew up in Pakuera village, located within the Kurâ-Bakairi Indigenous Territory in the municipality of Paranatinga, Mato Grosso—one of Brazil’s most ecologically diverse…
Manuel Sanchez, a field coordinator with the Amazon Conservation Team, remembers the first time he saw a sea turtle growing up on Costa Rica’s Osa…
Written by: Barbara Onkle What is One Health The term One Health, translated as “One Single Health” or “Unified Health,” was formally adopted globally after…