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For more than 30 years the RAINFOREST FUND has supported the indigenous communities of the world rainforests through its empowerment approach based on the right of indigenous peoples to determine the nature and use of resources that come into their community, through direct grants or when impossible through a local NGO. Indigenous people are invaluable partners in solving many of today complex problems such as climate change, biodiversity preservation, sustainable management of natural … [Read more...] about RAINFOREST FUND CALL FOR 2022 PROJECTS FUNDING FOR THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD RAINFORESTS

These are the latest news from the Uru-eu-wai-wai who when they were first contacted in 1981, disease and death followed shortly thereafter. They had limited antibodies to fight foreign pathogens, infectious diseases which took a toll. From a community numbering in the thousands more than half died. When the coronavirus epidemic arrived in Brazil in March 2020, the events of the 1980s loomed large in the community collective memory so they took the quick decision to isolate their seven villages … [Read more...] about THE URU-eu-wau-wau in RONDONIA STATE – BRAZIL – RAINFOREST FUND/ECAM project

At the end of 2020 the downside risk was that in 2021 the virus would not be brought under control by the end of the year and that a second and third waves would emerge and be equally as lethal. It happened and today here we are in a race against time, and epidemiologists say that we are in for a long haul. Yes we have the vaccine and the western and rich countries might see the light out of the tunnel provided that their protection has a lasting effect, what nobody knows at the time of … [Read more...] about COVID – 2021 SCENARIO

The end of the most traumatic period of this year 2020 is finally in view, as Covid vaccines are being distributed, recovery has become reality even if it is still far away for the whole world. The pandemic has trained its death and destruction of livelihood on all the ethnic minorities of the world, men, women and children, and has underlined even more the profound disparities in access to vital elements like clean water, electricity, education, and health systems. But the ending is likely to … [Read more...] about Indigenous communities and the Pandemic: THE VACCINE

 Please go to https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/lands-forests-territories-inter-american-human-rights-system-rights-land-natural-resources/news  … [Read more...] about Update from Costa Rica: court orders eviction of indigenous people and Public Prosecutor’s Office archives case of murdered leader

The fate of the world’s remaining indigenous peoples, the fragile environment they occupy, and the valuable knowledge that they embody could well be decided once and for all by the new disease COVID19, which is spreading at great speed across all the continents and certainly will hit the indigenous communities of the Americas, Africa and Asia if governments and corporations which have invaded their territories do not take all the necessary steps to protect them. Let’s not forget that ever since … [Read more...] about COVID19 AND THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD’S RAINFORESTS

When suddenly your travel plans are cancelled because of the coronavirus, you want to understand the why, how, where and when all this happened. So I spent some time to go through articles from Jonathan Watts “Habitat loss threatens all our future” The Guardian November 17th 2018, Katarina Zimmer “Deforestation tied to changes in disease dynamics” the Scientist. NY January 29th 2019, and more and I share with you my understanding and my … [Read more...] about A LINK BETWEEN CORONAVIRUS AND DEFORESTATION?