Helping the Maijuna Save their Traditional Culture and Ancestral Lands

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Today, there are only about 400 Maijuna individuals left in the Peruvian Amazon living in four villages in a large area between the Napo and Putumayo Rivers. Maijuna ancestral lands are incredibly biologically rich and culturally important yet this large swath of primary rain forest is currently under siege.

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2009 RCF UPDATE

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If you’ve been following RCF´s activities for the last several years, you have probably noticed that we had focused our conservation work on the Tahuayo River and the 322,500 hectare Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo (RCTT). Together with our sister group in Peru, the Asociación para la Conservación y Desarrollo Amazónico (ACDA), our goals were to protect the reserve and support the communities located in the buffer zone of the upper Tahuayo River.

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