Premier of the video: Strengthening indigenous rights to the land in the Brazilian Amazon

The video Strengthening indigenous rights to the land in the Brazilian Amazon premiered today on Casa Fund´s YouTube channel. The video brings testimonies of the representatives of supported projects about the importance of the works done around the defense of their territories and how the Casa Fund support helped in that. Strengthening indigenous rights to the land in the Brazilian Amazon is a Casa Fund initiative, launched between 2020 e 2022, with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. R&4.9 million were donated directly to 57 indigenous organizations spread in 46 Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

The support was aimed at contributing to expand the territorial integrity of Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon, through financial support for projects by indigenous organizations. The projects seek to overturn the absence of supervision by creating or strengthening their own protection mechanisms. Among the main achievements attained by the supported groups are the increase in protection capacity of their territories using technology and their own means of transportation, in addiction to carrying out monitoring, training and reporting operations, which involved the engagement of women and young people. The impacts of big projects that affect the territories and the development of consultation protocols were also documented.

This initiative is part of the Casa Amazon Program, a support program from Casa Fund focusing on the biome. Indigenous peoples exert a very important role in the Amazon because they act as true guardians of the forests. For Inimá Krenak, program manager and person in charge of Amazon Casa “The native peoples have been caring for, managing, planting and protection forests and waters for thousands of years. Without this lasting action, based on the form of occupation that these peoples learned from their ancestors, it can be said that the diverse and rich forest we know today could not even exist anymore. These peoples hold traditional knowledge and technologies for this care, and they manage to, despite everything, win important battles in the war waged them and their territories. What we can do is keep supporting and believing in their capacities, collaborating to improve fundamental tools to guarantee that these actions keep helping to maintain the sky up there”.

Ensuring good conditions for indigenous peoples to monitor and protect their territories is also ensuring that forests and life persist, in the Amazon and in the world.

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