HR!Day538 - Pachamama Alliance - The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative: one of the largest and most ambitious Indigenous led conservation initiatives on Earth
Day 538 Wed 9/14/22 The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative: one of the largest and most ambitious Indigenous led conservation initiatives on Earth
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Several key leaders of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative (ASHI) will describe the vision, history, process, and current status of the commitment to put 86 million acres of the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth into permanent protection.
This initiative encompasses the Napo and Maranon river basins, stretching across the entire Ecuadorian Amazon and through the Northern Peruvian Amazon. It is being led by 30 Indigenous Nations, who are aligned on a common vision for protecting their home.
Learn about the extraordinary vision, power, possibility, and challenges of this historic initiative.
Conveners:
- Lynne and Bill Twist, co-founders of the Pachamama Alliance
Presenters:
- Atossa: Founder and board president of Amazon Watch and served as the organization’s first Executive Director for 18 years. Director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative.
- Domingo: Ecuadorian Achuar leader, former vice-president of CONFENIAE the organization representing all indigenous people of Ecuador’s Amazon region, currently international Indigenous spokesperson for ASHI.
- Jorge: President of AIDESEP, the national organization advancing the social, economic and cultural rights of the indigenous people of Peru’s Amazon regions; member of the Governing Council of ASHI.
- Lynne: Co-Founder of Pachamama Alliance, award winning author and founder of the Soul of Money Institute, advisor to ASHI.
- Jorge Pérez Rubio is an indigenous Murui leader from the province of Putumayo in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon, an area known as the Amazon Sacred Headwaters region. For 25 years, he has contributed to the defense of indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He is currently the President of Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest (AIDESEP), the national indigenous organization of Peruvian Amazon. AIDESEP is a member of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and shares the common objective of defending the territory, fully exercising collective rights and self determination. He recently completed his term as the president of the Regional Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO), representing 50,000 people from 450 communities and 12 indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon.
Recommended Reading/watching:
- ASHI website, SacredHeadwaters.org
- Bio-Regional Plan, cuencasagradas.org
- Short ASHI video: https://vimeo.com/239712443
- 2041 animated ASHI film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiJLqcIV7kE
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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