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Help Indigenous Peoples Reclaim the Amazon

Help Indigenous Peoples Reclaim the Amazon
The Inga People have protected their rainforest home for centuries.

It’s one of the places our planet feels most alive -- the lush tropical forest, snaking streams and deafening waterfalls between the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers in the Colombian Amazon.

Alongside dozens of Indigenous Peoples here, they’ve protected this forest like family -- knowing the animals are their kin, that their ancestors live in this land's memory.

But in the eyes of the law, most of their ancestral lands don't even exist.

That’s why they’re under attack: from land grabs, mining, logging -- with no legal way to end the destruction. Imagine living in the same family home for generations, only to be told: ‘get out’.

Threats are arriving faster than communities can respond. We have to act now.

Together with dozens of Indigenous Peoples, we’re launching a new movement to reclaim thousands of hectares of land, putting it back into Indigenous hands. Our donations would help secure legal land titles, map territories, plant thousands of trees in damaged sections -- and push politicians for lasting change.

The more we raise, the more we can protect: dozens more watersheds under Indigenous care, tens of thousands more seedlings planted in the ground, hundreds more hectares safeguarded.

The Inga and all the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon know that everything is interconnected. If you feel that in your bones too -- that everyone’s fate is bound to the Amazon’s -- then help protect this forest and put land back in Indigenous hands today.

Donate what you can now.
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