About 

FightForAmazonia.info is an independent discovery platform for contemporary Indigenous expertise across the Amazon Basin.

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The Amazon is one of the world's most important living systems, yet conversations about its future are still often shaped by perspectives from outside the region. Scientists, journalists and policymakers play essential roles, but the people who live in the Amazon—and who have shaped its cultures, territories and societies for generations—remain comparatively difficult to discover in global public discourse. FightForAmazonia exists to help change that.

 

Across the Amazon Basin, Indigenous leaders, artists, educators, communicators, filmmakers, writers, entrepreneurs, researchers, activists and cultural leaders are generating knowledge, influencing public debate and developing ideas for the future. They are not simply witnesses to what is happening in the Amazon. They are contemporary experts whose knowledge has been shaped by the realities of their lives and by their efforts to shape the conditions in which they live.

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Expertise through experience​

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Expertise is not only produced in laboratories, universities or institutions. It can also emerge through decades of organising communities, defending territories, taking cases to court, communicating internationally, protecting cultures, building alternative ways of living and creating new forms of education and political action. These experiences generate forms of experiential and strategic knowledge that are essential to understanding the Amazon.

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FightForAmazonia seeks to make this knowledge easier to discover. Much of it already exists—in interviews, documentaries, books, podcasts, speeches, research, news coverage, social media and organisations—but it is scattered across the internet and often difficult to find without prior knowledge of the region. Rather than speaking for Indigenous peoples, the platform creates pathways to their existing voices, work and ideas, bringing people, ideas and resources together and making the wider landscape of contemporary Indigenous leadership easier to explore.

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From visibility to learning​

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The aim is not simply to increase visibility. It is to create opportunities for recognition, learning and connection. A person who discovers an Indigenous leader might encounter their ideas through an interview, follow their work through an organisation, discover a movement's history, or find other people working on related questions elsewhere in the Amazon.

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The Amazon is often presented through deforestation, fires, illegal mining and climate crisis. These issues matter deeply, but they are only part of the story. The Amazon is also a region of people organising, creating, researching, communicating, protecting territories, building economies and developing new ways of thinking about the future.

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From expertise to agency

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For people confronted with the scale of today's ecological crises, it can be difficult to see what one person or community can actually do. FightForAmazonia explores another possibility: what can we learn from people who are already acting?

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The experiences of Indigenous movements and individuals can reveal not only knowledge about the Amazon, but also strategies, forms of resilience and examples of collective agency. By making Indigenous expertise easier to discover, FightForAmazonia aims to contribute to more representative journalism, richer education, stronger international connections and more inclusive conversations about the Amazon and our shared future.

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Ultimately, the project is about more than visibility. It is about broadening whose knowledge informs how we understand the world—and what we believe is possible.​

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Discover. Listen. Learn. Connect.​

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• Discover contemporary Indigenous leaders, experts, knowledge holders and movements across the Amazon.

• Listen to their ideas, experiences and perspectives through interviews, documentaries, books, research and other existing resources.

• Learn from the knowledge, strategies and experiences of people shaping the Amazon and its future.

• Connect people, ideas, organisations and initiatives across the Amazon Basin—and with the wider world.