Amazon 20

Join us for a screening of ‘The Eagle and the Condor”- Wednesday July 1st
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Join us for a screening of ‘The Eagle and the Condor”- Wednesday July 1st
As we work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Indigenous activists across North and South America continue to defend the lands and waters, and to protect their communities from extraction and the pandemic. The climate crisis is not paused while we battle COVID-19, and we must support and learn from those at the front line of the struggle for climate justice. The Esperanza Project is proud to partner ...
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Major artists unite in support of indigenous guardians of the rainforests threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Major artists unite in support of indigenous guardians of the rainforests threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic
On June 21st, major international artists will join in solidarity with indigenous peoples for a livestream concert to raise awareness and support for indigenous forest guardians under extreme threat from the coronavirus. Participating artists including Sting, Gilberto Gil, Caetano, Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Cafe Tacuba, Carlinhos Brown, Aurora, Jorge Drexler, Ana Vitoria, Manu Gavassi, Anitta, Sandy, Maná, Seu Jorge, Manu Chao, Gaby Amarantos, T...
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Urgent Support for Caucho Community – Covid19 Fund
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Urgent Support for Caucho Community – Covid19 Fund
Dear people of the world, We the Txana Huya family are writing this message to our friends national and international to support us during this time of necessity of isolation to save our lives, of our elders and youth. We are part of the 180 families in the indigenous lands of Igarape Caucho, in Acre Brazil who are in need of immediate support during this time. Our family group ‘Txana Huya’ consists of 22 Huni Kuin families, that take part ...
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Folk Medicine: Live-stream benefit concert for the people of Amazon, 6/10
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Folk Medicine: Live-stream benefit concert for the people of Amazon, 6/10
  The situation throughout the Amazon Basin is dire as indigenous peoples suffer from illness, lack of food, medical supplies and income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical infrastructure is more or less collapsed in many regions and jungle communities are left largely to fend for themselves. FOLK MEDICINE was put together as an umbrella fundraising concert to support multiple direct relief campaigns already...
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Nisun: The vengeance of the bat people or what it can teach us about the new coronavirus
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Nisun: The vengeance of the bat people or what it can teach us about the new coronavirus
By Els Lagrou(1) The Huni Kuin of Acre and of the Eastern Peruvian Amazonian rainforest share a philosophy of life with many other indigenous groups that can be qualified as “ecosophy,”(2) one that attributes the majority of illnesses to the consumption of animals. Humans fall ill because the beings we hunt and fish, as well as some of the plants we consume, or other animals we attack or interact with, take revenge and send their nisun, headac...
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One Forest. Amazon Action Forum – May 3, 2020
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One Forest. Amazon Action Forum – May 3, 2020
The Amazon Rainforest experienced its worst year of deforestation in over ten years in 2019. Now with the coronavirus spreading throughout a highly susceptible population of indigenous people and rising deforestation continuing to push the forest towards an irreversible tipping point, the forest and its people are in an extremely vulnerable state. Join One Forest as we gather experts in Amazonian science, NGO leaders, and indigenous representa...
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Good news has come from the jungle, from the Yuruparí nation (Colombia)
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Good news has come from the jungle, from the Yuruparí nation (Colombia)
This year, fear, anguish, courage, bravery and many other experiences and human feelings have reached the ears of the inhabitants of that area of ​​the Amazon. The COVID19 virus is advancing and people in the jungle are always thinking ahead, thinking of anticipating what is to come. Faced with an 'enemy' as powerful as that virus, from the tradition and spirituality of these indigenous peoples, the only thing they have much power to face it with...
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Indigenous Women of Brazil and Ecuador on the Frontlines: COVID-19 and Defending Communities and the Amazon
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Indigenous Women of Brazil and Ecuador on the Frontlines: COVID-19 and Defending Communities and the Amazon
During this webinar, Indigenous women leaders of the Ecuadorian and Brazilian Amazon will unite to discuss how the devastating coronavirus pandemic is impacting their communities, as they face ongoing deforestation, oil extraction, and Indigenous rights violations in their territories. As is the case across Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples of the Global South are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 due to a lack of resources and health di...
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MUSIC VIDEO: Txaná Ikakuru – Eskawata kayaway (Brazil)
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MUSIC VIDEO: Txaná Ikakuru – Eskawata kayaway (Brazil)
Eskawata Kayaway (transformation) - A song from the Huni Kuin (kaxinawa) tribe, dreamt by pajé Agostinho Inkamuru, and its calling the spirits of nature, the elements, the yuxibu, the sun, moon, and stars to bring transformation. Txana Ikakuru lives in his native Huni Kuin village in the Jordao region of Acre-Amazon-Brazil. He is the grandson of Romao Sales (who was one of the main guardians of the Sacred and ancient Huni Kuin chants of Nixi Pae)...
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360 VIDEO: Guardians of the Forest (Brazil)
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360 VIDEO: Guardians of the Forest (Brazil)
The Amazon is burning. Decades of environmental protections in Brazil have been undone and ecological devastation has accelerated at an unimaginable pace and scale. The Guardians of the Forest, a volunteer monitoring force of the Guajajara tribe, are the last line of defense for the rainforest in the heart of an industrialized Amazon. Led by activist Sônia Guajajara, this VR documentary brings audiences on a journey into her culture and on an exp...
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SHORT FILM: A’i Kofan, the people (Colombia)
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SHORT FILM: A’i Kofan, the people (Colombia)
Emergildo Criollo (Kofan nation) was just a child when the oil company Texaco arrived by helicopter in his peoples’ ancestral territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The ensuing decades of oil extraction and deliberate contamination dramatically altered the landscape of the region, impacting the Kofan people’s culture and resulting in a public health crisis. Emergildo fought the company, now Chevron, in court for decades, before deciding to return to...
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FEATURED MUSIC: New Huni Kuin Bandcamp Album
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FEATURED MUSIC: New Huni Kuin Bandcamp Album
Fresh out ! An online Huni Kuin music compilation on Bandcamp. 30 live songs recorded in the 2018 Eskawata Kaywe Festival edition, and made a beautiful online compilation bringing these vibes from the forest, the Huni Kuin people, and the txanás (singing birds), access the link to purchase it: https://eskawatakayawai.bandcamp.com/releases By buying this collection online you will be directly strengthening the cultural, spiritual manifestations...
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Immunotherapy Expenses for Chief Ninawa’s Family
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Immunotherapy Expenses for Chief Ninawa’s Family
Calling on all Indigenous Resistance allies/supporters! Our dear friend and fellow Indigenous Earth Warrior/Activist Chief Ninawa Huni Kui's wife and partner in resistance, Aldenira, is in need of our collective support at this time. She is battling cancer and they do not have the means to be able to afford the treatments so they are asking us for support. This is an opportunity for us to be able to DIRECTLY support those that are on the fr...
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Amazon’s Huni Kuin Fire Emergency Reponse
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Amazon’s Huni Kuin Fire Emergency Reponse
The fires that have been occurring in the Amazon has also affected the Huni Kuin people. The Huwã Karu Yuxibu center, located in Rio Branco, the Acre capital, was one of the victims of the fire. Located on the AC 90 highway, kilometer 36, Ramal da Goiabeira, the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center is a center for culture, spirituality and traditional medicine research. The site works to strengthen the indigenous cultural identity of the Huni Kuin people a...
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