Projects, Community Journalism & Archive
A journal of knowledge, community, and the collective journey toward healing, justice, and ecological guardianship.
AYELE Community Journalism
Reporting from the frontlines of environmental and social change. Explore interviews, stories, and community perspectives from Indigenous and local territories.
Elvia Dagua Guatatuca speech. Defending Indigenous rights, territory, water and Pachamama, calling for protection of land and future generations.
At COP30, we interviewed Indigenous and frontline communities’, documenting their insights on climate solutions, justice, and environmental care.
Articles
Explore research and articles that highlight the vital role of Indigenous peoples and their territories in sustaining ecological balance. Through science, data, and lived experience, these resources examine climate regulation, biodiversity, cultural resilience, and the knowledge systems that have safeguarded ecosystems for generations.
Scientific NASA'S studies prove how Indigenous communities protect the Amazon rainforest, the planet’s carbon sink, sustaining life, climate balance.
The World Economic Forum and Indigenous leaders Network highlight how Amazon peoples protect biodiversity and climate, rebalancing humanity with Earth
Research from NASA’s Earth Observatory shows tropical rainforests are essential to the planet’s climate system, sustaining life and global stability.
UNESCO highlights how Indigenous peoples safeguard tropical forests, preserving biodiversity, preventing deforestation, and sustaining Earth's balance
In Caiapó Indigenous peoples use controlled burns to restore and sustain Amazon forests, prevent wildfires, and blend ancestral wisdom with science.
This article from The Nature Conservancy highlights Indigenous efforts to protect Amazon rivers and preserve ecosystems and water quality.
Archive - Knowlegde & Memory
A collection of stories, legends, cosmologies, and cultural memory that invites readers into Indigenous ways of knowing. Through mythology, oral traditions, and ancestral narratives, this archive offers perspectives on community, nature, and the relationships that sustain life.
In the Amazon, Naiá’s love for the moon turned her into the Vitória-Régia flower, symbolizing femininity, nature, resilience, and ecological balance.
Yuruparý represents the living law of the Amazon, blending Indigenous wisdom, sacred rituals, spiritual guidance, and the eternal memory of the forest
Discover Curupira, the mythical guardian of the Amazon rainforest, rooted in Brazilian folklore and Indigenous wisdom that defends nature and balance
akumama, the Amazon’s Mother of Water, inspires respect for rivers and life, teaching the forest’s balance, fertility, and ancestral wisdom.