Maloca
The term “Maloca,” refers to the ancestral long houses used by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and is symbolic of their approach to supporting culturally-based and community-identified strategies for defending culture and territory. Maloca works directly with indigenous leaders as well as with an array of volunteers and sponsors in the U.S. to raise awareness about the needs of community partners and find means to help them establish self-sustaining strategies to address these needs.
04/03/2020
And so coronavirus made it to the Amazon as well...
Brazil confirms first indigenous case of coronavirus in Amazon Positive test for 20-year-old woman from Kokama tribe comes amid fears virus could devastate remote communities
12/15/2019
"A coalition of countries seeking higher ambition were blocked by a group of big polluters insisting on accounting tricks such as “hot air” credits, opposing help for nations suffering the impacts of climate change, and demanding that human rights protections get removed from the main sections of the agreement that COP25 was intended to resolve"
UN climate negotiations end in 'demoralizing, enraging' failure The United Nations climate talks went into record overtime and then ended in failure on Sunday. The countries gathered in Madrid for COP25 were unable to agree on the main objectives of the negotiations and kicked the most important decisions down the road to next year’s meeting in Glasgow, Scotla...
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