Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partners, the A’i Cofán de Dureno community in Ecuador, have been mobilizing to defend their ancestral lands against oil exploitation by the national oil company Petroecuador for six months.
Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partners, the A’i Cofán de Dureno community in Ecuador, have been mobilizing to defend their ancestral lands against oil exploitation by the national oil company Petroecuador for six months.
YIMOM is a network of Maya Tsotsil healer women who live in the community of Nuevo Corral Chꞌen el Ángel, Chiapas, Mexico, and work towards ensuring food security and food sovereignty for their communities by taking care of their soil.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
En el equipo del Fondo Guardianes de la Tierra (KOEF, por sus siglas en inglés) estamos felices de anunciar la lista de socios 2022, cuyos proyectos acompañamos y apoyamos en este año complejo donde el cambio climático y la crisis provocada por el coronavirus siguen estando en el centro de las preocupaciones, mientras que la defensa de los territorios Indígenas requiere cada vez de mayores esfuerzos.
By Verónica Aguilar (Mixtec, CS Staff)
The Katari River in Bolivia runs 90 kilometers and empties into Lake Titicaca at the point where Tiquipa, an Aymara settlement, is located. Due to its location in the Chojasivi Canton, Los Andes Province, and at an altitude of 3,800 meters above sea level, this community protects one of the most important ecosystems in the region. However, pollution of their river and lake has created an environmental emergency.
Por Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, Equipo de CS)
By Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, CS Staff)
Por Carolina de Freitas Pereira
KOEF Grant Partner Spotlight
The Karão Jaguaribaras Peoples live in the state of Ceará in eastern Brazil, especially in Ybatrytê, Sierra de Baturité, and adjacent areas. They are a community that has been living in under a continuous threat to their territories. The sustainable management of the environment, which includes the practice of agriculture, is fundamental to their way of life.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.