I Workshop of Arapaima Counting for Women is held in Mid-Juruá
With the training, women will be able to participate in the phase of the counting of the individuals, which precedes the fishing in the lakes, until then, performed by men. By Raqueline Nery, Quilvilene Cunha and Ana Carla Rodrigues Associação das Mulheres Agroextrativistas do Médio Juruá (ASMAMJ) in partnership with Instituto Juruá, carried out on […]
Instituto Juruá prepares itself for field activities in the second half of 2021
By Hugo Costa Working in Amazônia is fantastic! The greatness of forest and rivers, the endless diversity of life and peoples enchant anyone. However, the challenges of leading research projects in the region begin right at the organization. After a 18 month-gap, with a lot of planning and caution, Instituto Juruá returned to its regular […]
UNESCO GREEN CITIZENS: A global voice for local actors of change
By Joseph Hawes UNESCO Green Citizens is a global campaign to enhance local initiatives and highlight local environmental citizen-led projects on a global scale. This campaign was founded on the idea that changes in our relationship with the environment will only be achieved through the bringing together of complementary actions and networking of commitments for […]
Instituto Juruá participates of the 4th edition of PAIS (Programa de Aceleração de Impacto Social – Social Impact Accelerator Program)
By Andressa Scabin Instituto Juruá was one of the 12 civil society organizations (CSOs) selected among more than 400 competing organizations to participate in the 4th edition of the Programa de Aceleração de Impacto Social – PAIS (Social Impact Accelerator Program). PAIS is a program promoted by Phomenta in partnership with Instituto Bancobrás, Sicoob Planalto Central, […]
Meet The Young Protagonists
By Clara Machado How are new leaderships formed in social movements? At Mid-Juruá, the Young Protagonists project is a grand school for new leadership qualification. Before the project was established in the region, the elderly saw the youth as uninterested and irresponsible. There was a serious concern about passing on the social movement and the […]
About Meritocracy
By João Vitor Campos-Silva Seu Gracias is the greatest arapaima fisherman in the region. His naturalistic vein is as big as the great swamp that floods all land that meets the eye. His dream? He wanted to be a biologist, now see… It was a rainy day when he vented to me on our boat, […]
Project Elaboration Course Is Being Offered to Grassroots Associations from Mid-Juruá
By Clara Machado This September, Instituto Juruá is offering “Project Elaboration Course” to grassroot associations from Mid-Juruá. Many associations expressed a need for a course to improve their writing techniques for raising funds. Even though the pandemic presented itself as a challenge, the course started coming back to life in 2020 by the hands of […]
From: Amazonia
To: Márcio Ayres
Hello Márcio, Brazilian biologist and naturalist, a very important figure when it comes to conservation, even more so when conservation also includes looking after the other. The care towards the communities, the traditions, the stories, towards me. I would like to recall a little about your trajectory: passionate about primates, you did your master’s degree […]
Songs that cannot be silenced
By Renato Rocha In August 1979, the Porantim newspaper, published by the Indigenous Missionary Council, printed in one of its pages a list of 85 names of indigenous people of the Deni ethnic group who had died as a result of an outbreak of tuberculosis that was devastating the villages of the Xeruã river, an […]
Training in Educommunication is held in the Médio Juruá in partnership with Embrapa
By Clara Machado Between the months of June and July, the course “Socio- Environmental Educommunication Practices Applied to the Promotion of Sustainable Development in Amazonia” was offered remotely by Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental and Embrapa Rondônia, in partnership with Instituto Juruá. The course was structured into four modules, via Google Meet, about different tools of educommunication […]