Territory and Culture
We promote the governance and sustainable management of Indigenous territories to protect life in the Amazon, generating innovative actions based on an Indigenous narrative that conceives of territory as a sacred and integral element of vital importance for the conservation of resources, culture, identity, and ancestral knowledge.
Defense of ancestral lands
Strengthen the advocacy capacities of communities and their representative organizations by raising awareness and making visible the impacts associated with threats that endanger their way of life and the integrity of their territory, promoting, through community reflection, a process of collective construction for the development of narrative capacities and community response in defense of their rights.
Workshops on “Memories and Stories: Community Strategies for Territorial Defense”
The Maijuna communities, in partnership with OnePlanet and Radio Ucamara, began this process using their own indigenous narratives as a tool to empower, strengthen, and build strategies that allow them to confront various processes that once again threaten their identity, culture, and territory.
Orality and dialogue marked the workshops from beginning to end, using art as a tool for drawing, painting, singing, and storytelling. The strategy of talking maps was used, highlighting the ecological, memory, and spiritual importance of these maps, a social cartography, and were constructed collectively, successfully transmitting knowledge and wisdom.
Workshops on “Communication for Social Change from the Maijuna People”
Using communication as a tool to generate discourse and raise voices, the Maijuna communities, their allies OnePlanet, Radio Ucamara, and the production company Sacha Cine developed stories about the impacts of environmental crimes and their relationship with biodiversity loss and climate change, with the intention of raising collective awareness with actions that allow for the defense of the territory, raising awareness of the threats they face and the solutions they propose from their perspective.
“Territories for Life” Campaign
Communication campaign against the construction of the Bellavista-Mazan-Salvador-El Estrecho highway, which threatens the forests that sustain the life, culture, and future of the Maijuna, Kichwa, Bora, Yagua, Ocaina, Murui, Secoya, and Ticuna peoples, and which are located in the Maijuna Kichwa Regional Conservation Areas (ACRMK), Ampiyacu Apayacu (ACRAA), and the proposed ACR Medio Putumayo Algodón.
This initiative is the result of a participatory and community-based process implemented by the Maijuna communities, along with the Consultative Council of Indigenous Organizations of the Putumayo, Napo, and Bajo Amazonas Territories, with the support of the Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO) of Loreto, and the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP).
Its purpose is to highlight the importance and vision of the territory for Indigenous peoples, the socio-environmental impacts that the highway would generate, and the Indigenous peoples' position regarding infrastructure projects.
Strengthen the advocacy capacities of communities and their representative organizations by raising awareness and making visible the impacts associated with threats that endanger their way of life and the integrity of their territory, promoting, through community reflection, a process of collective construction for the development of narrative capacities and community response in defense of their rights.
Defense of ancestral lands
The Maijuna communities, in partnership with OnePlanet and Radio Ucamara, began this process using their own indigenous narratives as a tool to empower, strengthen, and build strategies that allow them to confront various processes that once again threaten their identity, culture, and territory.
Orality and dialogue marked the workshops from beginning to end, using art as a tool for drawing, painting, singing, and storytelling. The strategy of talking maps was used, highlighting the ecological, memory, and spiritual importance of these maps, a social cartography, and were constructed collectively, successfully transmitting knowledge and wisdom.
Workshops on “Memories and Stories: Community Strategies for Territorial Defense”
Workshops on “Communication for Social Change from the Maijuna People”
Using communication as a tool to generate discourse and raise voices, the Maijuna communities, their allies OnePlanet, Radio Ucamara, and the production company Sacha Cine developed stories about the impacts of environmental crimes and their relationship with biodiversity loss and climate change, with the intention of raising collective awareness with actions that allow for the defense of the territory, raising awareness of the threats they face and the solutions they propose from their perspective.
“Territories for Life” Campaign
Communication campaign against the construction of the Bellavista-Mazan-Salvador-El Estrecho highway, which threatens the forests that sustain the life, culture, and future of the Maijuna, Kichwa, Bora, Yagua, Ocaina, Murui, Secoya, and Ticuna peoples, and which are located in the Maijuna Kichwa Regional Conservation Areas (ACRMK), Ampiyacu Apayacu (ACRAA), and the proposed ACR Medio Putumayo Algodón.
This initiative is the result of a participatory and community-based process implemented by the Maijuna communities, along with the Consultative Council of Indigenous Organizations of the Putumayo, Napo, and Bajo Amazonas Territories, with the support of the Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO) of Loreto, and the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP).
Its purpose is to highlight the importance and vision of the territory for Indigenous peoples, the socio-environmental impacts that the highway would generate, and the Indigenous peoples' position regarding infrastructure projects.