Project
The Yawanawá People

For hundreds of years the Yawanawá People have stewarded healthy and intact forest biodiversity and continue to do so even today. Supporting and expanding the rights of the Yawanawá and other Indigenous Peoples to steward their traditional lands is an important and efficient way to protect our biosphere.

The Yawanawá and other Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways are under attack, first from short-sighted political leaders, illegal loggers and miners, and now from the coronavirus. If they are to continue to successfully protect the forest for all of us, we must aid them by supporting progressive and sustainable policies and providing immediate assistance in times of crisis.

WILD strengthen global awareness of the critical role Yawanawá lands and leadership plays in protecting the biosphere. WILD assists with raising and transferring funds to support the Yawanawá Life Plan, part of which is for the protection of the primary forest and their traditional homeland. WILD advocates for positive leadership and policies that support, instead of erode, Indigenous land stewardship.