Quito, Mar 7 (EFE).- Colombia’s Fany Kuiru is the first woman elected to head the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (Coica), the world’s largest indigenous confederation, amid deep division and conflict within the Quito-based organization and with Ecuador’s Tuntiak Katan also claiming to be its leader. Amid this great internal tension within …
Across the entire 847 million hectares of Amazonian territory, some 26% of its forests are showing evidence of deforestation and degradation 20% have suffered irreversible loss and 6% are highly degraded. The tipping point for the Amazon is no longer a distant scenario, but a present reality in some parts of the region. Of […]
Uyukar Domingo Peas, an Ecuadorian Indigenous activist, says if there are still "reservoirs of natural resources" in the world, it is "because we have protected them for thousands of years."