Just weeks ago, I joined other Indigenous leaders from across #Ecuador, to meet in the forests of Yasuni, the ancestral homeland of the #Waorani people. Listen to our messages below.

Yasuni is a territory which calls us towards #unity. When you arrive in Yasuni, you are simply moved. It is a forest filled with #diversity and spiritual beings that many people don't recognize or see, but as Indigenous peoples, we know them.

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https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFLV1HLJIoX-gkSo2LrZl3yo5qW9xFd4X&utm_source=Amazon+Frontlines&utm_campaign=dd369091f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_Yasuni3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df6926ddb5-dd369091f7-194032584

RT @exiliadaana
Dos formas de reportar una noticia, y una sola verdad Las comunidades #Waorani resisten ante el ataque constante a sus territorios, su conexión espiritual con la tierra, que es suya de nadie más. #Resistencia. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644092265340497927

"“Don’t expect us to keep doing it alone. We need you to fight with us.'"

---Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, who used community-sourced GIS data to defeat the Ecaudorian government in court.

"By deftly bridging the world of Indigenous people and Western society, bringing together elders with youth, as well as tribes that were once divided, she has protected 500,000 acres of rainforest."'

#Indigenous #Amazon #Ecuador #Waorani #Biodiversity

https://www.positive.news/environment/be-rebellious-and-creative-kind-and-gentle-and-above-all-humble/

#NemonteNenquimo, Mitbegründerin der indigenen Organisation #AlianzaCeibo und erste Präsidentin der #Waorani-Organisation in der Provinz #Pastaza in #Ecuador, wandte sich mit einem Brief an die Präsidenten der #Amazonasländer http://ow.ly/oI3S30rffFE

"The Ceibo Alliance (Ceibo) is an indigenous-led Ecuadorian non-profit organization comprised of members of the #Kofan, #Siona, #Secoya and #Waorani peoples, who, in partnership with #AmazonFrontlines, is creating a model of #indigenous resistance and international solidarity rooted in the defense of indigenous territory, cultural survival, and the building of viable solutions-based alternatives to rainforest destruction."
https://www.amazonfrontlines.org/who/partners/

#amazonas #amazon