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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman | Davi Kopenawa & Bruce Albert

22nd March 2022 by Katie Percival

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Ver: Entrevista con Defensora Amazónica Alexandra NarváezBeth Pitts

24th June 2021 by Beth Pitts

Beth Pitts entrevista a Alexandra Narváez, una defensora indígena Kofán de la región norte de la Amazonía del Ecuador. La comunidad de Alexandra, Sinangoe, es famosa por ganar una batalla legal histórica contra la minería de oro en 2018, que protegió mas que 30.000 hectáreas de selva primaria megabiodiverso y las cabeceras de […]

Read: Hope in the Amazon: Interview with Jimmy Piaguaje

12th November 2020 by beth

Jimmy Piaguaje is a young indigenous Siekopai defender from Siekoya Remolino, a community of 53 families living on the banks of the Aguarico River in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon region. The Siekopai (which means multicoloured people) are renowned for their shamanic acumen and knowledge of medicinal plants, with uses for over 1,000 different plants. According […]

Read: Voice of the Living Forest: Interview with Indigenous Resistance Leader José Gualinga

8th October 2020 by beth

José Gualinga is a leader of the Native People of Sarayaku, an indigenous Kichwa group with 1400 inhabitants living in a remote part of Ecuador’s southern Amazon. Known for their defence of the rights of nature and indigenous peoples, the Sarayaku call themselves the People of Noon, referring to an ancient prophecy of their ancestors […]

Read: Tear Gas or Tea? A Very English ArrestBeth Pitts

2nd July 2020 by toby

Photograph of the author Beth Pitts on a rainy day.

As I lay in the middle of the road outside Downing Street, surrounded by police, awaiting my imminent arrest, I looked up at a cloudless blue sky. It felt like a sign that the rain had finally stopped and, as I enjoyed the sun on my face, one of London’s famous parakeets flew overhead. […]