ACOFOP. Maya Biosphere Reserve – Petén, Guatemala.
The guardians of life and biodiversity are in serious danger while climate negotiations advance at the global level
By Dina Juc - Area of Rights and Culture, Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests Within the framework of World Environment Day, indigenous peoples remind the world, international organizations and state governments, that 80% of the planet's biodiversity is...
As indigenous people we move quickly to survive, but we need help
The Bribri people of the tropical forests of Costa Rica, came out of isolation only in the last decades. Because of this, we are often called “the hidden people.” As the deadly new coronavirus takes hold in Costa Rica and other tropical forest countries, we run the risk of being invisible again.
Youth education models adapted to indigenous and local communities are present at COP27
We've heard it already: our mother earth is in urgent need of care, the indigenous and local communities know how to preserve the environment, and the future of our forests depends on the youth. Even so, traditional teaching models have not adapted to the worldview of...
Integrating Indigenous Peoples into the NDC process through capacity development
At COP27, the FSC Indigenous Foundation, the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB), the Association for Research and Integral Development (AIDER), and Ecosphere+ convened experts at an event on November 16 in the UNFCCC Capacity Building Hub,...
Local experience of indigenous women inspires expansion of regenerative approaches
With the aim of being part of the paradigm shift in food production on a global scale, Heylin Sánchez, a Bribri woman from the Kábata Könana Women's Association, participated in the work laboratory “Exponential action: expansion of regenerative approaches through...