Indigenous territories across the Amazon are not just rich in biodiversity and traditional knowledge,
➡️ they’re also on the front lines of a dangerous resource rush.
In this clip, from the upcoming Explorer’s Way Episode, Beto Borges shares how powerful interests in oil, gold, timber, and other resources have pushed deeper into Indigenous lands without consent, leaving polluted rivers, razed forests, and in some cases even murdered Indigenous leaders in their wake.
He explains that these aren’t abstract policy debates, but life‑and‑death struggles over ancestral homelands that also safeguard the forests and climate systems all of us depend on.
Beto Borges, long time friend and colleague, is Director of the Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative at Forest Trends Association and an environmental leader with over 30 years of experience working alongside Indigenous and local communities in the Amazon and Latin America to secure their rights, steward forests, and access climate and conservation finance.
Tune in to Beto Borges: Indigenous People, Guardians of Biodiversity dropping on May 27th here on LinkedIn and a few days before on You Tube on The Ethnobotanical Explorer channel.
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