Amazon Watch Works With Indigenous And Environmental Organizations In The Amazon Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the amazon basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of largescale industrial development. Provides news, campaigns, resources and contacts. http://www.amazonwatch.org/
Extractions: s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) Welcome to Amazonwatch.org You are using a non- frames enabled browser- please use the following links: A mazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations i n the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and power lines, roads, and other mega-projects. Oil Project on U'wa People's Sacred Land ( December 12, 2000 Transcript of Interview with Roberto Perez President of the U'wa Traditional Authority on His Recent Speaking Tour in the U.S ( November 17 2000 U'wa Communique -The U'wa reject the enslaving attitude of Occidental Petroleum ( November 22, 2000
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Extractions: More information WELCOME TO THE AMAZON ALLIANCE The AMAZON ALLIANCE works to defend the rights, territories and environment of indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon Basin. The Alliance is an initiative born out of the partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. Use our web site to..... Amazon Forum VI, Washington, DC May 8-10 NGOs from throughout the Americas and Europe and Amazonian indigenous and traditional peoples organizations from Brazil, the Andean region, and the Guyana Shield region will meet this year at the Amazon Forum to develop joint plans to defend the rights, territories, and environment of Amazonian peoples. Email us for more information. Volunteer and Internship Opportunities
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WEBLINK COICA The Coordinating Body for the indigenous Organizations of the amazon basin (COICA) is a group that to promote the cultural comeback and recuperation of the amazon indigenous peoples. http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/webpages/nativesp99/grito/weblinkCOICA.html
Extractions: COICA Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin The Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) is a group that brings more than four hundred indigenous people together. It was founded in Lima Peru in 1982 in order for native people to be able to defend their rights, fight for the survival of their culture, and to exchange experiences in to find solutions to their various problems. Since 1992 COICA has made its headquarters in Quito, Ecuador. They have a Congress that meets every four years in order to make up policies and find new authorities. It is this group that comes up with official goals such as the desire to promote and develop the interaction between indigenous peoples and COICA members. They also want to be able to defend territorial restoration, indigenous peoples self-determination and the human rights of its members. An additional goal is to strengthen the unity for the region's indigenous peoples; and finally, to promote the cultural comeback and recuperation of the Amazon indigenous peoples. Today the group has accomplished such feats as allowing indigenous peoples to be educated in their native languages. They have also founded an Amazon Indigenous University. Both of these things are part of the push for recuperation and revalorization of traditional cultures.
URBANIZATION IN THE AMAZON BASIN: CAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SURVIVE? amazon basin as its setting, the lesson highlights the concept of urbanization, and focuses on the effects of urbanization and modernization on indigenous peoples, http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/plans/soc/dindians.html
Indigenous Peoples In The Amazon Rain Forest indigenous peoples in Acre. The Indian peoples of the amazon basin are divided into 6 linguistic groups Tupi, Karib, http://www.amazonlink.org/ACRE/amazonas/rubber-tappers/indigenous.htm
Extractions: See the Declaration of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change Indigenous Peoples Delegation to the Sixth Session of the U.N. Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (The Hague, Nov. 16th.) A delegation of indigenous representatives from 22 different countries, and 28 distinct cultures, is currently assisting the sixth session of the UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP6), presently being held in The Hague, Netherlands. The Indigenous Peoples (IP) delegates are attending the COP6 to advocate preservation of the fragile ecosystems on their lands which are suffering serious environmental damage as a result of global warming. The delegates are also demanding that the governmental representatives of the Parties recognize them as full participants in the negotiations, the executive decision-making, and the ultimate implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. The Second International Indigenous Forum on Climate Change was held the weekend preceding the COP6, on the 11th and 12th of November, so as to develop common points of negotiation to present at the Conference. The basis for ¨The Hague Declaration¨ (the informal name given to the document written by the IP representatives for COP6) was discussed at the aforementioned Forum and will be presented to the President and Secretariat of COP6 for subsequent widespread distribution to governments.
Locate Indigenous Peoples - UNCyberschoolbus common threats, indigenous peoples of the amazon region formed the CoordinatingBody for the indigenous peoples' Organizations of the amazon basin (COICA) in http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/indigenous/locate_focus.asp
Amazon Watch Works With Indigenous And Environmental Organizations In The Amazon amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the amazon basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of largescale industrial development-oil gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and to protect the forests and indigenous peoples of Bolivia June 4th, 2002, the indigenous organization CPESC wrote a for not complying with the indigenous peoples development program. http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/alert/bol_02/020613_alert_bol.html
Extractions: The Inter-American Development bank is scheduled to vote on financing a $125 million loan to Enron and Shell's subsidiary in Bolivia, Transredes, by November 2002. The loan would finance expansion of the YABOG pipeline, which runs from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to Argentina. It is outrageous that public money would go to finance Enron and Shell given the Enron scandal, ongoing investigations of Enron by the U.S. Department of Justice, and egregious unresolved social and environmental impacts related to their other pipelines in Bolivia. For more background information follow these links:
Locate Indigenous Peoples - UNCyberschoolbus amazon region formed the Coordinating Body for the indigenous peoples' Organizations of the amazon basin (COICA) in 1984. http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/indigenous/locate_focus.asp
South America - Rainforest Portal amazon. Cabeceras Aid Project Provides humanitarian aid to geographicallyisolated indigenous peoples of the amazon basin. Comissao http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Indigenous_Peoples/South_Ame
Extractions: Uwa Amazon Alliance for Indigenous Peoples Hot - General information about the Amazonian Indigenous peoples. History, background, links, working groups, and photos. Amazon Conservation Team - ACT is dedicated to creating new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon. Amazonia Suriname - Various news articles on developments surrounding Suriname's rainforest and indigenous people. Arutam: Jivaro Indians in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Rainforest - Relief for Jivaro Indians in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian rainforest. A non profit organization focused on the safe-keeping of the Shuar, Achuar and Zaparo's traditional medicine and promotion of Amazonian traditions in Europe. Ashaninka Website - Website of the Ashaninka peoples of the Peruvian Amazon.
Extractions: First announcement and call for papers and proposals - September 2001: Introduction: This international interdisciplinary congress will deal with the conservation of biodiversity in the Andes and Amazon Basin with focus on the countries Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. These countries are hosting an enormous cultural and natural diversity. The ecosystems are ranging from deserts to tropical forests. Between the two extremes there is a variety of plant formations: mangroves, lowland forests in the Amazon basin, tropical dry forests, relicts of Andean forests and scrub formations in the Paramo region. Biodiversity reaches its peak in the complex tropical mountain forests on the slopes of the Andes, which were declared as one of the "Biodiversity-Hotspots" world-wide (Nature, Vol. 403, February 2000). But all of the above mentioned ecosystems have in common, that they are threatened by logging, burning, grazing or other land-use activities. Although there is already a lot of knowledge about the importance and vulnerability of these ecosystems, the destruction is going on. The congress will provide a unique opportunity to join different groups being concerned with biodiversity: scientists, environmental organizations and local/indigenous people. The exchange of various viewpoints, requirements and knowledge, as well as the realization of the current deficits could facilitate the development of improved conservation strategies and a better management of the natural resources. Right now, the cooperation of science, NGOs and indigenous peoples is frequently insufficient. NGO representatives often do not know anything about the ongoing research in their working area, whereas indigenous peoples are sometimes not asked when management plans are established to protect special areas. For a long-term protection of biodiversity it is crucial to develop conservation strategies in a joint effort.
Extractions: Title: Chairpersons' Report Author: The International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, The Co-ordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and the Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC). Date: December 9-13, 1996 Publisher: International Technical Secretariat of the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests Number of Pages: 28 Language: English ANNOTATION: International Meeting of Indigenous and Other Forest-Dependent Peoples on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests AVAILABLE FROM: International Technical Secretariat of the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests
Biodiversity And Protected Areas The following is the perspective of the Coordinating Body for the indigenous peoples'Organizations of the amazon basin (COICA) adapted from COICA's To the http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/b18-gbs.html
Extractions: Source The following is the perspective of the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) adapted from COICA's "To the Community of Concerned Environmentalists" (1989). "We, the Indigenous Peoples, have been an integral part of the Amazon Biosphere for millennia. We used and cared for the resources of that biosphere with respect, because it is our home, and because we know that our survival and that of our future generations depend on it. "Our accumulated knowledge about the ecology of our home, our models for living within the Amazonian biosphere, our reverence and respect for the tropical forest and its other inhabitants, both plant and animal, are the keys to guaranteeing the future of the Amazon Basin, not only for our peoples, but also for all humanity.
Extractions: Source The Inter-Ethnic Association of the Peruvian Rain Forest (AIDESEP), an association of 28 federations of indigenous peoples from Peru, has launched a program to restore the productivity and diversity of degraded fields and forests in their ancestral domain. The project site is near Pucalpa, which lies at the end of the Pucalpa-Lima highway, the only road linking the Amazon Basin to the rest of Peru. Since the highway was built during the mid-1960s, waves of colonists and land speculators have cleared the forests for farming and cattle ranching. In the process, the local indigenous peoples lost access to their ancestral lands. In response, AIDESEP has launched a campaign to secure land titles for those still living in forested areas and to reclaim their ancestral domain, much of which is now a wasteland of abandoned farms and low-productivity cattle pastures. In 1985, AIDESEP launched the HIFCO project to reclaim a 7.5-hectare parcel of abandoned cattle pasturean experiment in wresting food crops from marginal lands. German ecologists provided technical assistance during the first year. Since then, HIFCO has been totally managed and developed by the indigenous community, with modest international financial support. The abandoned pasture has become an ecological "Garden of Eden" that enjoys year-round production. Acidic soils have been restored, and crop yields have increased each year, surpassing those of nearby farms employing "modern" non-organic agriculture.
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Extractions: Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin 1367 Connecticut Ave, N.W Suite 400, Washington DC 20036, USA. T 1-202-785-3334 F 1-202-785-3335 amazon@amazonalliance.org www.amazonalliance.org Works to defend the rights, territories, and environment of indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon Basin.
Extractions: The PRIA was made possible by an IFAD Technical Assistant Grant of USD 2.000.000 and a Technical Cooperation Grant of USD 150.000 contributed by the Andean Finance Corporation (CAF). At the beginning the operations were planned to start in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. The main purpose of the PRIA has been to support appropriate conditions and opportunities, necessary to the survival, the cultural defence and the strengthening of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin. To achieve this aim, PRIA established the following specific objectives: 1) to strengthen the Indigenous organisations through co-financing pilot initiatives, promoting and developing these pilot experiences with the full participation of the Indigenous communities and Organisations; and 2) to formulate development projects for Indigenous communities. The PRIA has been promoting: 1) the direct participation of Indigenous peoples during the different stages of the project cycle; 2) the direct allocation of funds to the Indigenous peoples, without the involvement of any intermediary Institution.
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Extractions: home data survey contact Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional People of the Amazon Basin Acr o nym: Amazon Alliance Environment Human Rights Indigenous Communities All Source of Information: Survey of Civil Society Networks 2001 A. Objectives The Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin is an initiative born out of the partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. The eighty non-governmental organizations from the North and South active in the Alliance believe that the future of the Amazon depends on its peoples and the state of their environment. B. Contact Information Coordinator David Rothschild Title Co-Director Telephone Fax Email david@amazonalliance.org Website www.amazonalliance.org Mailing Address 1367 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 400, Washington, D.C., USA C. General Information Founding year Legal Status Types of actions Amazon activities are carried out through our regional working groups.
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