Christine Halvorson

Program Director, Rainforest Foundation US. NYC. Tweets my own.

[Adriana Ramos @naosoumaismess]

Violações e ameaças aos direitos indígenas marcam a primeira audiência de conciliação sobre o Marco Temporal https://t.co/6U7EscADb8 via @socioambiental

[AMPB @alianzabosques]

🌍✨ Today, we kick off the International and Intercultural Forum in Zacatlán de las Manzanas, Puebla, Mexico! Highlighting the invaluable contributions of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Mesoamerica to disaster risk reduction.

Our communities have centuries of knowledge, leading vital processes to protect lives and territories with their unique governance and worldviews, this is an opportunity to share, learn, and showcase how our solutions can and have a global impact! 🌿✨

[Rainforest Foundation US @RainforestUS]

🆘 Amazon On Fire
🔥 Record-breaking fires are ravaging the Amazon.
🚨 In the first 7 months of 2024, the Brazilian Amazon recorded the most fires in two decades.
🌳 Despite a 50% drop in deforestation in 2023, burned areas surged by 36%.
Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/N9VJZu50Iz

[Comissão Pró-Índio de São Paulo @proindio]

Negar os direitos dos povos indígenas coloca em risco todas as formas de vida no planeta! Esta causa é de todas e todos! #MarcoTemporalNão #MarcoAncestral #direitosindígenasnãosenegociam #MobilizaçãoNacionalIndígena

[RainforestFoundation @RFUK]

Important decision from the African Commission re. Batwa rights and Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Now for the DRC government and its international partners to implement its findings.

@MinorityRights
@ForestPeoplesP
@amnesty @RainforestNORW
@RdcApem

https://t.co/MEM0VyIFMX

[Dinamam Tuxá @Dinamam]

A @apiboficial exige a suspensão imediata da Lei 14.701/2023 até que o debate sobre o Marco Temporal seja concluído no STF #MarcoTemporalNão #MarcoAncestral #DireitosIndígenasNãoSeNegociam

[Rainforest Foundation US @RainforestUS]

In the Peruvian #Amazon, Iquitos hosted the country's first floating #FilmFestival! 🎥🌳

Learn more about this unique event and the role of film and cinema in celebrating Indigenous identities and protecting #rainforests in our latest blog 👇
https://t.co/ar1sTJQmyw

[Rainforest Foundation US @RainforestUS]

🌎 World #NatureConservationDay was celebrated yesterday.
While environmental conservation is crucial to our collective survival, any form of conservation that doesn't respect the rights of Black, Indigenous, and local communities is perpetuating colonial practices.

A thread 🧵

[Tenure Facility @TenureFacility]

🌐New research! 📰
Technocultural Data Protocols sheds light on the critical intersection of technology, culture, & data sovereignty.

Supported by Tenure Facility, it examines the complexities ethical data practices that support local communities.

🔗 https://t.co/2mMoxffpMv

[Rainforest Foundation US @RainforestUS]

Fascinating @pulitzercenter article on Brazil nut production in the northern #Amazon. In a region plagued by gold mining and illegal logging, the Wai Wai people are succeeding in uniting forest protection with local economies to secure their livelihoods.
https://t.co/Sk9FgoRGvX

[Scott Wallace @wallacescott]

Two years ago today, journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights and rainforest defender Bruno Pereira were murdered in Brazil. Remembering their courage, humanity, and all the good things they stood for and died for.

[InfoAmazonia Brasil @InfoAmazoniaBR]

Garimpeiros entraram em acordo com indígenas guianenses para exploração e usam território no Brasil para passar equipamentos.
Por @jullieepereira | @Report4theWorld e @GroundTruth.

https://t.co/8XgMltfljm

[Orpio @Orpioloreto]

#LogroIndígena Luego de 19 años de lucha las organizaciones indígenas logran que el Estado peruano cree la reserva indígena Sierra del Divisor Occidental (Kapanawa) a favor de los Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento y en Contacto Inicial #PIACI.

[Orpio @Orpioloreto]

#PRONUNCIAMIENTO Exigimos a @presidenciaperu #DinaBoluarte y la ministra del @MinCulturaPe @LeslieUrteaga la creación de la reserva indígena Sierra del Divisor Occidental Kapanawa

[Dário Kopenawa Yanomami @Dario_Kopenawa]

Brasília Hoje: Indígenas criticam comissão bolsonarista sobre yanomamis criada por Lira
https://t.co/73XPEpbkw3

[AMPB @alianzabosques]

🌳“We are aiming not only to make the funds reach the real guardians of the forest , but also to support sustainability, democracy and good governance of all these territories,” said María Pía Hernández - FTM manager
@globalalliancet
Read full article 👇🏿 https://t.co/0s5ngRZdvp

[Mary Lawlor @MaryLawlorhrds]

Condeno el ataque contra el defensor indígena Shipibo-Konibo Miguel Guimaraes en la Amazonía peruana la semana pasada. Su casa fue saqueada y los autores dejaron una amenaza pintada en una de las paredes. El Estado debe garantizar su protección @PeruEnGinebra @aidesep_org

[Rainforest Foundation US @RainforestUS]

💡In collaboration with our partners, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, we bring you a message this 🌎 #EarthDay:

Current models of 'development' are destroying our planet. We must find non-extractive alternatives to live in harmony with nature.

[Rubens Valente @rubensvalente]

hoje, Dia dos Povos Indígenas, vamos ajudar a Tuíre Kayapó, que passou boa parte da vida lutando contra a hidrelétrica no rio Xingu e agora precisa de auxílio para um tratamento de câncer >

https://t.co/k6H6SEuA8t

[Forest Peoples Programme @ForestPeoplesP]

⚫ "The Amazon is in mourning following the murder of another Indigenous brother!"

⚫ Victorio Dariquebe Gerewa, a park ranger of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon, was murdered on Friday while returning to his community, Queros.