Blog - Articles, Archive & Poetry
A living journal of knowledge, community, and the collective journey toward healing, justice, and ecological guardianship.
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Articles - Exploring the bridges between science, ancestral memory, and collective resilience
Here you’ll find articles that illuminate the essential role of Indigenous peoples and their territories in sustaining planetary balance, along with research on climate regulation, biodiversity, cultural continuity, and the wisdom systems that have protected the Earth for thousands of years.
At COP30, we interviewed Indigenous and frontline communities’, documenting their insights on climate solutions, justice, and environmental care.
This article from The Nature Conservancy highlights Indigenous efforts to protect Amazon rivers and preserve ecosystems and water quality.
In Caiapó Indigenous peoples use controlled burns to restore and sustain Amazon forests, prevent wildfires, and blend ancestral wisdom with science.
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
Scientific NASA'S studies prove how Indigenous communities protect the Amazon rainforest, the planet’s carbon sink, sustaining life, climate balance.
Our Poetry - A window into the AYELE'S heart
As a sacred offering, our team shares poetry. These pieces weave emotion with memory, allowing art to reveal the spiritual, intimate, and human currents that guide our work in AYELE.
Weaving connections that highlight the urgency and importance of bringing back the voices and knowledge of the most vulnerable populations to a modern world that has forgotten them, yet deeply needs them to heal and move toward true eco-social justice.
We invite you to read them as companions on this journey, quiet echoes of the worlds and intentions that shape us.
Poem reflecting on life, survival, inequality, and compassion, inspired by the streets of São Paulo, Indigenous wisdom, and a call for human awakening
A journey from fear to healing through ancestral drums and dance, breaking chains of violence and finding peace in community and collective memory.
The rhythms of resistance: stories of freedom through music and dance, stories of freedom and pride. Cultural heritage preserved through generations
Audiovisual Poetry
Poetry flows through AYELE as voice, image, and breath. Here, words meet sound and visual language, becoming offerings that carry memory, emotion, and ancestral resonance. These pieces open a doorway into the inner landscapes that shape our work, where poetry is a bridge between feeling and vision, fracture and healing.
Archive
AYELE-Archive of Indigenous Knowledge and Memory preserves the rich philosophies, legends, cosmologies, art, and music of Indigenous communities. It celebrates ways of knowing that honor life, sustain cultural heritage, and offer guidance for living in balance with nature. Through this collection, we amplify ancestral wisdom, connecting past, present, and future generations.
akumama, the Amazon’s Mother of Water, inspires respect for rivers and life, teaching the forest’s balance, fertility, and ancestral wisdom.
Discover Curupira, the mythical guardian of the Amazon rainforest, rooted in Brazilian folklore and Indigenous wisdom that defends nature and balance
Yuruparý represents the living law of the Amazon, blending Indigenous wisdom, sacred rituals, spiritual guidance, and the eternal memory of the forest
In the Amazon, Naiá’s love for the moon turned her into the Vitória-Régia flower, symbolizing femininity, nature, resilience, and ecological balance.
Team work & Partnerships
Our team and collaborators bring together vision, and dedication from around the world.
Working alongside partners like GARN, Conservation International, REFA and INEXO Verde, we combine knowledge from diverse fields; environmental science, Indigenous leadership, and cultural preservation. Together, we foster networks of care and shared action for a sustainable future.
We invite you to walk with us
We believe transformation is not built alone, but together, in community.
If you feel called to support, there is a place for you here.
Join us in co-creating spaces where memory is protected and collective healing becomes possible.
This is an invitation to belong.
To care.
To imagine and build, together,
As one.