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For many years, Native Future has been supporting Indigenous communities to restore the biodiversity important to their way of life . Why? First, we understand that people and their environments are inextricably linked, especially Indigenous peoples. Biocultural restoration revitalizes and strengthens their cultural and linguistic relationships with their natural world - their traditional ecological knowledge - helping to protect and restore the plants, animals and overall h

In 2021, corrupt actors laid claim to two-thirds of the Wounaan community of Aruza’s territory and the Government of Panama canceled Aruza’s application for ownership of their land. Soon after, Aruza's leaders were receiving maps from government officials showing more than 2/3rd of their territory was no longer theirs, and logging trucks started to roll through their community. Three years later, Wounaan have effectively reclaimed their land, and Aruza has resubmitted their a

Native Future partners with Indigenous organizations and communities to protect and conserve the lands, waters, and ecosystems that are...

Alcibiades is a thirty-four-year-old Ngäbe Buglé scholarship student from the Buenos Aires region. Married with five children and...