Maloca

Maloca Supporting indigenous peoples living in the Amazon basin. Maloca is a Village Earth affiliate.

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.

And so coronavirus made it to the Amazon as well...
04/03/2020

And so coronavirus made it to the Amazon as well...

Positive test for 20-year-old woman from Kokama tribe comes amid fears virus could devastate remote communities

Bad or evil decisions keep being made in Brazil. It is as if the Amazon and indigenous peoples are the enemy. Here is an...
02/09/2020

Bad or evil decisions keep being made in Brazil. It is as if the Amazon and indigenous peoples are the enemy. Here is another one:

Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘dangerous’ appointment of Ricardo Lopes Dias threatens remote indigenous people, UN special rapporteur says

"A coalition of countries seeking higher ambition were blocked by a group of big polluters insisting on accounting trick...
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"

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...

12/14/2019

On Monday, indigenous activists from the Brazilian, Colombian and Ecuadorian Amazon rallied outside the COP25 venue to protest the targeting of indigenous forest protectors and the destruction of their lands, known as the “lungs of the Earth.” Their protest came just days after two indigenous ch...

Two indigenous leaders killed in Brazil. Again. The situation becomes more and more dangerous for the indigenous peoples...
12/10/2019

Two indigenous leaders killed in Brazil. Again. The situation becomes more and more dangerous for the indigenous peoples.

Gunmen opened fire on a group from the Guajajara tribe on a highway in Maranhão state, killing two and wounding others

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