Mongabay: Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Mongabay, an independent environmental news organization, recently highlighted two communities in the Colombian Amazon, who are working to protect the rainforest and its peoples. Members of the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve and the community of Manacaro use traditional knowledge and technology alike to monitor threats to their territory and to protect nearby communities living in isolation. The monitoring work of these communities, with the support of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), helped to establish a resolution last October for the protection of territories inhabited by Indigenous groups choosing to live in isolation.

“We came to support the work [of Curare-Los Ingleses and Manacaro] with more infrastructure, logistics, and personnel, so that they could be stronger. Not only for the species and the places that they were already monitoring, but also for the voluntarily isolated people and the monitoring of threats to the Caquetá River,” Camila González Coca, a researcher with ACT, told Mongabay.

Read the full article in English here.