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Extreme Events in the Amazon: The Urgency of Climate Change
Prolonged droughts, uncontrolled fires and severe floods: extreme weather events in the Amazon are becoming more frequent and intense due...
2 days ago1 min read


🌍 World Environment Day
On 5 June, we celebrate World Environment Day, a date established by the UN in 1972 to reinforce the importance of environmental...
Jun 91 min read


🌿📚 Transforming Education with the Redario Project! 📚🌿
At Instituto Amazonas, we believe that reading can open doors to a better future! 💙 That's why we support the Redário Project, which is...
May 261 min read


2nd Traditional Crafts workshop
With the support of @secelmt through the VIVER CULTURA - IDENTIDADES - EDIÇÃO LEI PAULO GUSTAVO public notice, we held the 2nd workshop...
May 221 min read


Vanda Munduruku and the tradition of ancestral planting
In the village of Pontal, Apiaká do Pontal and Isolados Indigenous Land, Vanda Munduruku keeps the tradition of ancestral planting alive....
May 121 min read


Instituto Amazonas and Instituto Nelson Wilians
We took part in the NW 2024 Pro Bono Project, an incredible initiative by the Nelson Wilians Institute, in partnership with the Third...
May 61 min read


Instituto Amazonas arrives in Arraiol Bailique!
We've reached the heart of Arraiol Bailique, a riverside community located in the Bailique archipelago, where the Amazon River meets the...
Apr 281 min read


🌿 Rescuing Munduruku Culture with Support from the Amazonas Institute and Dsei Kayapó 🌿
In the Apiaká-Kayabi indigenous territory, located in the Rio dos Peixes region of Mato Grosso do Sul, Munduruku women face profound...
Apr 251 min read


🌱 Opportunities for indigenous agroecological products!🌍✨
Indigenous agroforestry production in the southern Amazon is much more than cultivation - it's a legacy of sustainability and respect for...
Apr 171 min read


Traditional crops
The Amazonas Institute has launched a catalogue of the main traditional crops and indigenous agroforestry products from the southern...
Apr 141 min read


🌎 AGROFORESTRY: A SOLUTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 🌿
Every day, we feel the impacts of climate change: extreme heat, droughts, heavy rains. But there's a powerful way to combat these...
Apr 141 min read


🏹🌳🌎✨ Body Painting: Identity, Culture and Resistance✨
For indigenous peoples, body painting is not just ornamentation - it is identity, spiritual protection and cultural expression. Each...
Apr 21 min read


Cultivating knowledge and sustainability
The Amazonas Institute's Seed Bank is more than an environmental preservation initiative - it's a living link between cultures,...
Mar 271 min read


Preparing the first Productive Backyard
Today marked a great beginning! In an area kindly provided by the Colíder/MT city council, we planted the first seeds of what will be a...
Mar 271 min read


Second stage: Expografismo: Knowing Our Culture
During the second week of February, more than 20 women from the Mebengokrê, Munduruku and Apiaká communities took part in a painting...
Mar 271 min read


Expografismo: Getting to know our culture
In partnership with the Mato Grosso State Secretariat for Culture, Sport and Leisure - SECEL/MT, through the VIVER CULTURA - IDENTIDADES...
Mar 271 min read


🌱 Guardian of the Seeds: United for Agrobiodiversity! 🌱
The Amazonas Institute took part in the inspiring ‘Workshop on Conservation of Agrobiodiversity by Guardians in Community Seed Banks...
Feb 262 min read


Amazonas Institute Increases Native Seedling Production with Youth Support
The Instituto Amazonas Nursery is celebrating a significant increase in the production of native seedlings, thanks to the commitment and...
Jan 211 min read


Promising start in 2025!
The Amazonas Institute is starting 2025 with support for the Suruí people of the Apoena Meirelles village, located in the Sete de...
Jan 201 min read


Empowerment and Sustainability with the Paiter Suruí Women
The indigenous women of the Apoena Meirelles village in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land are transforming previously discarded...
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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