Coordinadora de las Organizaciones indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica - COICA

Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin

Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin - COICA was founded in 1984 and is the umbrella organisation of the indigenous federations of the Amazon Basin countries. It advocates for indigenous peoples’ rights of 511 nationalities and groups that live in the Basin which include close to 100 uncontacted communities. COICA is the lead organization advancing the Amazonia for Life: 80% Protection by 2025-2030 campaign.

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Member organisations of COICA:

COICA members Coordination de los Organizaciones de los pueblos indigenas de la Cuenca Amazónica

COICA Organisaciones 9 paises del amazonas

Sign COICA's declaration to protect 80% of Amazonia by 2025-2030

'The initiative “Amazonia for Life 80% by 2025-2030” seeks to avert the tipping point in the largest forest on the planet.

Through an outreach and diplomacy campaign led by Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, we emphasize the need for Amazonian countries and the international community to adopt a science-based regional target for the Amazon to protect and restore 80% of the forest between 2025 and 2030 as a measure to avoid an irreversible point of no return.

Initiative 80x2025 protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025-2023 initiative COICA

A diverse group of hundreds of civil society organizations and a wide range of global cultural leaders are in support of averting this tipping point crisis and advancing bold solutions in the Amazon region that future generations will be proud of.'

Text: Amazonia80x2025-2030 (https://amazonia80x2025-2030.earth/en/theory-of-change/)

SIGN THE DECLARATION

Cuencas Sagradas Amazonicas

The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative

'The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative is building a shared vision among indigenous peoples, NGOs, the philanthropic community, social entrepreneurs and governments towards establishing a bi-national protected region – off-limits to industrial scale resource extraction, and governed in accordance with traditional indigenous principles of cooperation and harmony that foster a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.

The Initiative is led by Amazonian indigenous federations CONFENIAE (Ecuador), AIDESEP (Peru), ORPIO, and COICA, in partnership with Pachamama Alliance, and Fundación Pachamama.'

During this early stage of the Initiative, priorities include:

Resisting expansion of extractive industries including oil and mining and related infrastructure in the region
Strong regional alliance of key stakeholders—indigenous peoples, governments, civil society—aligned around a shared vision for the protection of the Sacred Headwaters region
Completing a regional ecological economic plan for the Sacred Headwaters that is grounded in the principles of ecological stewardship and community well-being
Developing conservation funding solutions that advance protections for the living forests and halt expansion of large-scale extractive industries

This Initiative offers an exceptional opportunity to create and demonstrate a new ecologic-economic model to usher in the post-carbon era – one that both safeguards the vital heart of our Earth’s biosphere and enhances human wellbeing.'

Text: Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon (https://sacredheadwaters.org/588-2/)