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In our on going effort to connect you deeply to our work in South America and around the world, we publish articles about the people, places, and ideas that are related to our work to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world.

Meet our Indigenous Partners, The Achuar

The Achuar are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, currently numbering around 6,000. Their ancestral lands &emdash; nearly 2 million acres in all &emdash; straddle the modern borders of Ecuador and Peru, a remote area that has allowed them to preserve their way of life with little outside influence or colonization.

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Community-Based Tourism and Travel

Value people over profit, and sustain communities while experiencing another culture and another way of being.

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Sumak Kawsay

An ancient Quechua word, sumak kawsay means "good living" or the "good life." Throughout South America, it is a way of living in harmony within communities, ourselves, and most importantly, nature.

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YasunÍ Rainforest

YasunÍ is a thriving tropical rainforest in Ecuador's northeastern region, and reputed to be the world's most biologically diverse forest.

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Kapawi Ecolodge

Kapawi Ecolodge and Reserve is a thriving refuge run by the Indigenous Achuar people as part of a vision for preserving their ancestral lands and way of life.

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Baños, Ecuador

Located at the foot of the Tungurahua volcano, Baños is a mystical town of waterfalls, hot springs, and miracles.

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Appropriate Technology

Appropriate technology achieves the desired benefits of modern technology without causing harm to the environment and the communities involved.

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Environmental Awareness

Environmental Awareness is the development of knowledge, understanding, and consciousness of the physical environment and the anthropogenic problems that plague it.

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Social Justice

Social justice is the equal distribution of opportunities, rights, and responsibility despite differences in physical traits and/or beliefs and behavior.

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Effects of Deforestation

Deforestation is the "permanent removal of standing forests" and occurs for a variety of reasons and has a variety of devastating consequences.

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Environmental Rights

Environmental Rights are the protection of natural resources; the access to and use of natural resources; and how the access to and use of these resources affects surrounding populations, as well as the resources themselves.

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Indigenous Rights in the Amazon

Large resource development and infrastructure projects such as the building of roads, pipelines, and dams raise a lot of Indigenous rights issues in the Amazon rainforest.

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