The world’s forests are under threat. Our remaining forests with their precious biodiversity are being cleared to make way for beef, soy, sugar and palm oil production, mining and other industrial activities, fuelled by the increasing demand from Europe and other regions. The European Union is a significant importer of products linked to deforestation and […]
Date: September 10th, 2020 In the framework of the program, we presented the “All Eyes on the Amazon” Data Journalism Contest, as an initiative to encourage the participation of journalists as content creators to give visibility to the threats faced by Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Amazon, and promote social awareness and impact. […]
We met a group of young Indigenous people from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon through the Leadership Program with Gender Sensitivity for Young Indigenous people, in the framework of the All Eyes on the Amazon program. They learned about legislation, sustainability, climate change, gender; but we learned much more through their voices and their stories. This Ebook is […]
The Amazon Indigenous Health Route won first place in the third edition of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Award, a recognition given to innovative initiatives to face the most challenging problems of sustainable development in the Amazon. The SDSN Amazônia Award was launched in May this year, in association with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS), […]
By: Tanja Brok The COVID-19 pandemic not only affects the health of Indigenous communities, it also exacerbates existing threats to their territories and resources. Even though the Indigenous communities have adopted voluntary self-isolation, the invasion and destruction of their lands continues. This spreads the virus further, while violating their territorial and human rights. Hivos, through […]
By: All Eyes on the Amazon team based on the virtual conference Defending the Amazon: For Nature, For Us The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and comprises the most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest on Earth, with one in ten known species of the world living in it, including an estimated 16,000 […]
Originally published in https://www.iss.nl/en/news/ears-and-eyes-amazon Interview Lorenzo Pellegrini All Eyes on the Amazon is a project to implement frugal, simple but advanced environmental monitoring systems in the Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon. The project is led by Greenpeace International and Hivos. The objective is to detect deforestation and oil impacts. The teams of local monitors use smartphones, […]
By: The All Eyes on the Amazon team It is impossible to speak of territorial defense on the Amazon, without addressing the effective exercise of human rights, such as the right to health of the peoples and nationalities that live there. In the context of COVID-19, defending the Amazon and its living culture becomes even […]
Originally published on Hivos América Latina, May 26th 2020 Hivos, through the All Eyes on the Amazon program, supports the response of Amazonian Indigenous peoples and nationalities to COVID-19 and the threat it poses to their existence. In this framework, on May 25, it signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the Amazon Regional University – IKIAM […]
A virtual conference to celebrate World Environment Day The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world. It contains the largest collection of living plants and animal species on earth, with one in ten known species of the world living in it including an estimated 16,000 tree species (Field Museum, 2013). While the Amazon is […]