Our friends from MAPPHA, an Indigenous organization, team up with Yine land defenders from Peru to work on protecting the territories of their uncontacted neighbors, the Mashco Piro, who live across the Peru-Brazil border. The territories of uncontacted peoples are some of the most biodiverse, and many of them are under attack from agribusiness. Lucas Manchineri, the president of MAPPHA, calls them ‘the wary people’. He knows exactly how to identify their traces. It’s important to be aware of th

From Peru to Kenya: The Indigenous Struggle Against Landgrabs in the Name of Conservation Marisol García Apagueño (Kichwa) and Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek) are two Indigenous women separated by continents but united by a common struggle: the defense of their territories against a conservation model that evicts and violates their peoples. In Peru, Kenya, and around the world, Protected Areas are imposed without their consent, taking lands away from those who have managed them for generations. They're pr