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Saving Rivers & Lakes

SAVING RIVERS AND LAKES ORG. - Together we can protect water and the lives that depend on it 💧

Saving Rivers and Lakes is a Danish NGO dedicated to protecting and restoring freshwater ecosystems. From Denmark to the Amazon, we combine science, community action, and global partnerships to turn polluted rivers into living ecosystems, empower local communities, and secure clean water for future generations.

15/05/2026

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🌊The Shipibo People’s Cosmovision
The Shipibo people live in deep harmony with nature and their surroundings.

🌊The Shipibo view the world as divided into four layers, all of which are interconnected and exist simultaneously:

🌎Jene Nete is the world of water. This is where the serpent Ronin lives, who is the mother and creator of the universe.

🌎Non Nete is our world, where humans, animals, and plants live in close relationship and balance with one another.

🌎Panshin Nete is the world of death and disease. Here, imbalance reigns, which is part of the cycle of life and the forces of nature.

🌎Jakon Nete is the world of the heavens and the afterlife. Here, humans, plants, and animals all become stars and shine forever after death.

✨Udstillingen er skabt af Saving Rivers and Lakes i samarbejde med studerende fra Aarhus Universitet.✨

(Billedmateriale er genereret ved hjælp af AI)

07/05/2026

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲

Únete a una conversación con Olivia Bisa, presidenta de la Nación Chapra en la Amazonía peruana.

📍 Evento online

📆 Jueves 7 de Mayo

📌 Importante: la charla será hoy a las 13:30 hs (hora de Perú, PET / UTC−5) / 20:30 hs en Dinamarca.

🗣️ Idioma: Español

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04/05/2026

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🌊Who are the Shipibo people?
Meet the Shipibo who live along the Amazon River in Peru

🌊Visit the exhibition “From the Andes to Aarhus” and meet the Shipibo people, who live along the Huallaga River in Peru.

🌊The Shipibo people are one of the largest indigenous groups in the Amazon. They live in the Ucayali region, along the banks of the Amazon River. They are closely connected to nature.
They can be described as a river community. The river is vital to their lives—economically, socially, and ideologically.

🌊A hallmark of the Shipibo people is their unique patterns on clothing and ceramics, known as Kené. It is an ideological design inspired by the movements and skin of the snake.

✨Udstillingen er skabt af Saving Rivers and Lakes i samarbejde med studerende fra Aarhus Universitet.✨

29/04/2026

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲

Únete a una conversación con Olivia Bisa, presidenta de la Nación Chapra en la Amazonía peruana.

Olivia ha estado al frente de la defensa de su territorio tras derrames de petróleo y contaminación ambiental que afectan a su comunidad.

En este espacio, compartirá su experiencia y la realidad que viven en el territorio.

📍 Evento online

📆 Jueves 7 de Febrero

🗣️ Idioma: Español

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28/04/2026

𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 💧

𝘒𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘩 is an archaeological site just outside Huánuco in Peru and is particularly known for the “Templo de las Manos Cruzadas”, which dates back to one of the earliest known cultures in the Andes (around 2000 BC). 🏔️

For many years, Kotosh was actually believed to represent one of the oldest civilizations in the Americas – and possibly one of the oldest in the world – precisely because the findings point to a very early, organized and ceremonial culture.🌎

The site is located on the 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, which is a tributary of the Huallaga River. The location close to the river has probably had a great impact on the settlement. The river has both served as a water source, enabled agriculture and created access to transport and contact with other areas. At the same time, rivers have had a cultural and ritual significance in many early societies, which may also be relevant to the understanding of Kotosh as a ceremonial site. ✨

🎬 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗷 𝗞𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁

16/04/2026

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Saving Rivers and Lakes invites you:
At Aarhus Festuge 2026, you can experience the exhibition From the Andes to Aarhus at Dokk1.
The exhibition focuses on the Huallaga River in Peru and shows how pollution of the river has both social and health-related consequences for the people living along its banks.

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The world’s waters are polluted — but who bears the consequences? What do they mean, and how far apart are we really?
If you would like to learn more before the festival, follow us here on Instagram! In the coming weeks, you will get to know the river people, the Shipibo, and understand the importance of the river to their lives. Because water connects everything on Earth — all the way from Peru to Aarhus.

✨Udstillingen er skabt af Saving Rivers and Lakes i samarbejde med studerende fra Aarhus Universitet✨

https://savingriversandlakes.org/fra-andes-til-aarhus/

22/03/2026

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆💧

Today is World Water Day, a moment to pause and reflect on global freshwater challenges and solutions.

As an environmental NGO working with water every day, this is part of our daily reality. But today offers an opportunity to slow down and reflect on what water really means in our lives.

Water can feel abundant. After all, 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by it. And yet, only 0.5% is accessible and usable freshwater. 🌍

What seems infinite is, in practice, deeply limited, and shared by all forms of life.

And yet, for many people around the world, access to safe drinking water is still not a given. More than two billion people still live without safely managed drinking water.

At the same time, up to 80% of wastewater globally flows back into nature untreated. What we return to rivers, lakes, and oceans does not disappear, it becomes part of the ecosystems that sustain life, including our own.🌿

Water holds together ecosystems, wildlife, and landscapes. Civilizations have always grown around it. And still today, every form of life depends on its presence.💧

We often think of nature as something around us. But water reminds us that this boundary is not so clear.

We live on nature and we are part of it. We live on water and it is part of us.

What would it mean to care for water as something we are part of?

18/03/2026

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀

➡️ Around the world, rivers can appear black, red, green, yellow, or even multicolored. These colors are not random, they are shaped by the landscapes rivers flow through: forests, rocks, sediments, and life within the water itself.

From organic matter in rainforest rivers to minerals and sediments carried across continents, each color reflects the processes unfolding within an ecosystem. 🌱

While these examples show natural causes, river colors can also shift due to human activity: pollution, industrial waste, or excess nutrients can alter their natural balance and appearance.

Looking at a river’s color can reveal more than we might expect, it offers a glimpse into the world beneath the surface. 💧

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¿𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗾𝘂é 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘂𝗻 𝗿í𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀?

➡️ En distintas partes del mundo, los ríos pueden verse negros, rojos, verdes, amarillos o incluso multicolores. Estos colores no son aleatorios: están determinados por los paisajes que atraviesan, como bosques, rocas, sedimentos y la vida dentro del agua.

Desde la materia orgánica en ríos de selva hasta los minerales y sedimentos que viajan a lo largo de los continentes, cada color refleja procesos que ocurren dentro de un ecosistema. 🌱

Aunque estos ejemplos muestran causas naturales, los colores de los ríos también pueden cambiar por la actividad humana: la contaminación, los desechos industriales o el exceso de nutrientes pueden alterar su equilibrio natural.

Observar el color de un río puede revelar más de lo que imaginamos: es una ventana a lo que ocurre debajo de la superficie. 💧

16/03/2026

𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and one of the most prominent Indigenous voices from the Amazon. For decades, he has spoken internationally about the destruction of the rainforest and the threats faced by Indigenous communities as mining, deforestation, and resource extraction expand deeper into the forest.🌳

Through his words and activism, Kopenawa has sought to share the Yanomami understanding of the forest: a complex and living system where the well-being of humans is inseparable from the well-being of nature.🌿

His message is both simple and profound. If the forest is damaged, the balance that sustains life is also broken.

Perhaps the question he raises is one we must continue to ask ourselves: 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵? 🌍

📷 Photo: Victor Moriyama/ISA

05/03/2026

We’re excited to share that our chairperson Blanqui and our director Nikolaj will be speaking at 𝗞𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝘅𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 in Rwanda, this weekend.

They will talk about 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗚𝗢𝘀 in creating platforms for dialogue and collaboration across the Global South.

Spaces where ideas, experiences, and solutions can meet are essential for addressing today’s global challenges. We’re proud to contribute to this conversation 🌍💧

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