A quarter-century of great work...presented in a great #ArcGISStoryMaps!

Discover how Amazon Conservation Team uses satellite imagery to protect isolated Indigenous groups in the latest #FixThisbyAWS podcast. 🎧: go.aws/3ay5flz

Un proyecto muestra cómo la gestión de reservas naturales mejora con la participación indígena: en las zonas del Amazonas donde tienen acceso a los derechos totales de propiedad, la deforestación resultó un 66% menor elpais.com/eps/2021-04-25…

Los indígenas cuidan mejor la Tierra elpais.com/eps/2021-04-25… a través de EL PAÍS América

#Opinión | "Pretender que las decisiones jurídicas, escritas en el lenguaje técnico de los jueces, sean comprendidas por una sociedad multicultural, significa perpetuar el sentimiento de lejanía de las comunidades". Antonio José Lizarazo #RedÉtnica lasillavacia.com/historias/hist…

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities bit.ly/36oDWrB

"The 'Rights in the Territory' project, developed by the Amazon Conservation Team and the Corte Constitucional, has translated and adapted five of the court’s judgments pertaining to Indigenous peoples into 26 Indigenous languages." Mongabay bit.ly/3hvF17c

(1/3)🤝⛰ We are proud to announce the official delivery to the Kankuamo people of the expansion, by 5,000 acres, of the Kankuamo indigenous reserve in Colombia’s department of Cesar.

The indigenous peoples of South America are in a centuries-long struggle to reclaim and protect their ancestral territories. Mycologist Paul Stamets and I would like to help kickstart a land purchase campaign for the Amazon Conservation Team at tim.blog/land. We will each commit

A un año del cambio le entregamos a 🇨🇴 la cartografía de la Línea Negra de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.🗺️🤩 📽️Te contamos sobre este proceso de gran importancia para los pueblos Arhuaco, Kogui, Wiwa, Kankuamo y su relación espiritual y material con el territorio.🌎

#AmazonUnderworld in numbers: ▪️ 20 grams of gold a week - At first, the guerrillas collected 20 grams of gold a month, but soon they began to demand 20 grams a week from illegal miners. More in the 🧵 1/4👇

Hoy en la ciudad de Santa Marta el Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi - IGAC hace la entrega oficial de la cartografía de la "Línea Negra" Territorio ancestral y sagrado de los cuatro Pueblos de la Sierra Nevada de Gonawindua, Corazón del Mundo.

🗣️ The identity and language of some ethnic groups in the Colombian #Amazon is at risk of disappearing. 📍In Putumayo, Colombia, traditional leaders of the Cofán peoples of Cabildo Villanueva mapped 40 culturally important place names in their territory to help preserve their

Check out our new storymap, Living Territories: bit.ly/3QZLIjG 💚 Join us for stories about how our work to advance #territorialrights is helping to #empower indigenous and local communities in #Colombia to help preserve some of the world’s most critical #ecosystems. 🌱

Today is #GivingTuesday! 🎁🌱 Our goal is to raise $25,000 by the end of the day to bolster our fight to protect the Amazon together with #indigenouswomen. 🌻🔗 Give a gift today: bit.ly/40WKqct

🎉 We are proud to announce that our #storymap “Living Territories: Stories of Territorial Justice” has won the IUCN Indigenous Peoples Governance and Rights Award in the 2023 Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition. 🦋 Jennifer Kelleher, a guest judge for the competition and member

🏆Esri & IUCN are pleased to announce the winner of the special IUCN Indigenous Peoples Governance and Rights Award of the 2023 ArcGIS #storymaps Competition, which goes to... 💚Living Territories Stories of Territorial Justice from Colombia 👉storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6fa6d4…

Today we honor the memory of Daniel Matapí and Roberto Franco, two beloved members of our team in Colombia who tragically passed away on September 6, 2014, in the rainforests of Caquetá. Daniel was an indigenous liaison working with our #Colombia team. He helped lead many

#MinAmbienteCol | Hoy, en la #COP16Colombia, lanzamos la Declaratoria Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento. Esta es la primera vez que una declaratoria reconoce la urgencia de proteger a estos pueblos y su relación con la biodiversidad. Protegerlos, es proteger

Partnering with Amazon Conservation Team and Indigenous communities, we use high-resolution satellite imagery to detect threats in near-real time—helping local alliances identify 800+ illegal mining barges since 2020. 🌍 More: blog.maxar.com/for-a-better-w…