These animals were captured by camera traps installed with the support of Amazon Frontlines in Siekopai territory—where Indigenous stewardship protects biodiversity.
Big Oil, deforestation, and climate change put all of this at risk.
Protect the Amazon. Protect life
#IndigenousConservation #Wildlife

Five Truths You Haven’t Been Told About Indigenous Guards

Indigenous guards exist because communities and nationalities have the right to self-determination and autonomy.

Know more about what it means to be a guard 👇🏼
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🎞🎥 @nicokingman Martín Kingman.

👁 Indigenous Guards are ancestral, community-based organizations that defend life and territory. They include Indigenous youth and elders, women and men, who protect their lands and show the world what Indigenous-led conservation truly means. ✊🏽

Defenders of the #AmazonRainforest
walking ancestral paths in Nemonpare, Ecuador.🦶🌳

The Amazon gives them life, and they sustain hers.

🎥 Amazon Frontlines/ Martin Kingman
🎵🗣 #Waorani Song “Ome Beye” by Nuestra Selva.

"I'm proud that my story, #WeWillBeJaguars, has found a place in so many people’s hearts & minds. Today, we celebrate the anniversary of its release in the US. Thank you to all who helped this story travel so far."

-Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani Leader & Co-founder of Amazon Frontlines.

Listen. 🌬🌿
This is what the lungs of Mother Earth sound like.
Indigenous Peoples and communities have been guarding, caring for, and coexisting with the #AmazonRainforest for millennia.
Their stewardship sustains the Amazon, and the Amazon sustains life for all of us. Protect it. 🎥Amazon Frontlines

🤝The partnership between #AmazonFrontlines and #AlianzaCeibo shows that lasting change comes from unity: #IndigenousPeoples leading the defense of their lands, and allies standing with them—listening, learning, and supporting their struggle for cultural survival.🍃