National Zapara Association of the Pastaza Province of Ecuador
$5,002 to continue the effort to secure the Zapara Nation’s legal title to 988,000 acres of what remains of their ancestral territory.
Grants in South America
Traditional U’wa Authority
$13,640 to help fund a mass mobilization by the U’wa, who have been resisting attempts by Occidental Petroleum to drill for oil on their traditional land for years.
Censat Agua Viva
$2,001 to help organize a two-day workshop on oil exploration in the Colombian rainforest and its impacts on forest ecosystems and Indigenous peoples, including a visit to an oil drilling site and a strategy session on how to strengthen organizing techniques of local communities and national and international grassroots organizations.
Jatun Sacha Foundation
$5,002 to implement traditional Quichua agroforestry techniques, including reforestation of endangered native mahogany species, and the small-scale marketing of traditional arts to provide a supplemental source of income.
National Zapara Association of the Pastaza Province of Ecuador
$5,004 to help secure the Zapara Nation’s legal title to 988,000 acres of what remains of their ancestral territory, preserving the integrity of both the Zapara culture and one of the purest, most biodiverse regions in the Ecuadorian rainforest.
Censat Agua Viva
$10,000 to help the U’wa to protect their sacred land against Occidental’s attempts to drill for oil.
Traditional U’wa Authority and the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC)
$8,000 grant in support of a project to defend U’wa land from proposed oil drilling, including several workshops on oil exploration in the Colombian Amazon, demarcation of U’wa land, and an appeal to the Colombian Government to reverse the decision allowing drilling on U’wa land.
Acción Ecológica
$5,000 to help defend Yasuni National Park and the Cuyabeno Reserve from the proposed ITT oil project through non-violent direct actions, letter writing campaigns, political pressure, media work, and national and international pressure on oil companies.
Traditional U’wa Authority and the U’wa Defense Working Group
$1,081 to purchase communications equipment through which members of the Traditional U’wa Authority and the U’wa Defense Working Group can communicate efficiently, expeditiously and safely.
Center for Amazonian Workers
$5,000 to develop renewable forest resources, such as herbal remedies, plant oils, and ornamental plants that would be sold to local markets as economic alternatives in the Rio Branco area of the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre.