⚖ To date, the Rights in the Territory initiative has produced adaptations of 26 constitutional #court rulings benefitting over 30 indigenous, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero communities from across Colombia.

🪸 Shanelle Kay, a Raizal #political #scientist , describes the…

Do you want to make the Amazon part of your #legacy ? To help ensure #indigenouspeoples of #Amazonia have the resources to care for the #earth and our collective future, we would like to introduce another way to support our mission together with our new partners at #FreeWill . 📜🌱…

Tapirs, also known as “the #gardeners of the forest”, play a critical role in #tropical #forests as #seeddispersers .🐾

🌴 Today, there are four extant species of tapirs including the #Brazilian tapir and the #CentralAmerican tapir. Due to illegal hunting and destruction of…

🌎🌴🌐 Through the “Living Territories” storymap, join us for stories about how our work to advance #territorialrights is helping to #empower indigenous and local communities in Colombia to manage and preserve some of the world’s most critical ecosystems: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6fa6d4……

“The fact that this event is in our native tongue, and that the court is here today, strengthens our community’s understanding that the Raizal person is a part of a national geography.” - Penn Dale Humphries, an educator from the Raizal community in Providencia

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On #EarthDay —

Restore local waters. 🌊 Track dolphins. 🐬 Study #climate science.

Read interviews with the 2023 ArcGIS #StoryMaps Competition winners for stories behind the stories.

And learn how people are protecting the planet, one story at a time: esri.social/QfQ550RlmB9

🌸 This Earth Day, we celebrate the biodiversity that thrives in lands protected by indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples protect nearly 80% of the remaining terrestrial #biodiversity on the #planet . 🍃

💚 We are committed to securing indigenous peoples’ ancestral territories…

🌿 Learn about the story behind the unique cultural objects of the Magütá (Tikuna), Yukuna, Makuna, and Gente del Centro (Murui-muina and related groups) indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon through the interactive storymap “Palabras de Vida”.

️🌴 Palabras de Vida…

⏩️Join the live stream here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k…

Through his thesis work at Colombia’s Universidad del Externado, our colleague Jefferson Alonso Chirimuscay has discovered an important #archaeological site for the Misak people. Upon receiving his report, the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) accepted…

🌿 The Korebajʉ, Embera, Pastos and Murui Muina people are in a process of restoring the prominence of traditional medicine, where the traditional knowledge of these peoples, who have safeguarded the health of their territories and communities, is recognized.

💚 With the support…

Congrats to our President Mark Plotkin on the occasion of receiving their prestigious award in recognition of his many decades devoted to protection of the biocultural diversity of Amazonia.
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I’m honored to receive the American Botanical Council Champion Award in recognition of my years of work protecting the biocultural diversity of Amazonia! 🌿🏆 Read the press release here: bit.ly/3Je2Du3

“The Murui-Muina people came from La Chorrera, Amazonas in a place called Komumafo. We are people of coca and tobacco and of sweet cassava.” - Murui Muina community member from Putumayo, Colombia

🌿 With our support, the Murui Muina people of Putumayo have advanced the first…

🌿With the support of our partners the The Rockefeller Foundation and the Skoll Foundation the Intercultural Indigenous Health System (SISPI) collects the knowledge of the Korebajʉ, Embera, Pastos and Murui Muina people of Putumayo, Colombia and integrates it into self-managed and…

“The Korebajʉ people, the people of the land, yage, tobacco, and coca, we are children of Mother Earth.” - Korebajʉ community member from Putumayo, Colombia

🌿 With our support, the Korebajʉ people of Putumayo have advanced the first phase of their Intercultural Indigenous…

🪶 In the Colombian Amazon, some indigenous communities dance for days, with the purpose of healing the world and the relationships between the beings that inhabit it.

🗺 Palabras de Vida presents the results of an indigenous-led investigation into the objects in the collection…