Indigenous Strategies to Protect the Amazon in the Context of Climate Change, with Martín von Hildebrand

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Indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon are managing a territory larger than the size of the United Kingdom. Over the last 17 years these communities have developed a very innovative process with the support of Gaia Amazonas and the COAMA programme, directed by shamans and driven by indigenous thought. The programme focuses on reviving their diverse and ecologically centred governance systems to administer this large territory collectively. Dr. Martin von Hildebrand tells us how this process has evolved. He explains the vital role indigenous traditions, cultures, knowledge and livelihood options play in recuperating and protecting mega bio-diverse areas of the Earth. 

Martín von Hildebrand, Head of the COAMA Programme and Colombian NGO Fundación Gaia Amazonas, has been a leading force in achieving collective indigenous rights to over 21 million hectares of tropical forest, and in stimulating a political will towards the inclusion of significant indigenous rights within Colombia’s 1991 Political Constitution. The COAMA Programme was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1999.

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