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🏹🌳🌎✨ Body Painting: Identity, Culture and Resistance✨
For indigenous peoples, body painting is not just ornamentation - it is identity, spiritual protection and cultural expression. Each...
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Cultivating knowledge and sustainability
The Amazonas Institute's Seed Bank is more than an environmental preservation initiative - it's a living link between cultures,...
Mar 271 min read


Preparing the first Productive Backyard
Today marked a great beginning! In an area kindly provided by the Colíder/MT city council, we planted the first seeds of what will be a...
Mar 271 min read


Second stage: Expografismo: Knowing Our Culture
During the second week of February, more than 20 women from the Mebengokrê, Munduruku and Apiaká communities took part in a painting...
Mar 271 min read


Expografismo: Getting to know our culture
In partnership with the Mato Grosso State Secretariat for Culture, Sport and Leisure - SECEL/MT, through the VIVER CULTURA - IDENTIDADES...
Mar 271 min read


🌱 Guardian of the Seeds: United for Agrobiodiversity! 🌱
The Amazonas Institute took part in the inspiring ‘Workshop on Conservation of Agrobiodiversity by Guardians in Community Seed Banks...
Feb 262 min read


Amazonas Institute Increases Native Seedling Production with Youth Support
The Instituto Amazonas Nursery is celebrating a significant increase in the production of native seedlings, thanks to the commitment and...
Jan 211 min read


Promising start in 2025!
The Amazonas Institute is starting 2025 with support for the Suruí people of the Apoena Meirelles village, located in the Sete de...
Jan 201 min read


Empowerment and Sustainability with the Paiter Suruí Women
The indigenous women of the Apoena Meirelles village in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land are transforming previously discarded...
Nov 29, 20241 min read


Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Cultural Sarau at Professor Alzira Maria da Silva State School
@escolalzira hosted an unforgettable event: the Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Cultural Sarau! There were many exciting presentations,...
Nov 18, 20241 min read


Enawenê-Nawê people and the ‘Honanekakwa’ nursery
🌱✨ The Amazonas Institute is supporting the Enawenê-Nawê people in the ‘Honanekakwa’ nursery! 🌿 The ‘Honanekakwa’ nursery, set up in...
Nov 18, 20241 min read


Special visit to the Amazonas Institute
✨🌿** Special visit to the Amazonas Institute !** ✨🌿 We had the honour of welcoming the amazing guys from the student guild ‘Força’,...
Nov 7, 20241 min read

Another stage of the Women Sowing Opportunities project!
We are excited to announce the start of another phase of the Women Sowing Opportunities project, now with the Kîsêdjê people of Khikatxi...
Oct 11, 20241 min read


Handmade soap production (September 2024)
We welcomed the lively group from the Colíder Collective Health Forum to take part in our natural soap-making workshop. 🧼🌱 This...
Oct 11, 20241 min read


BIOTRAILS' second stakeholder workshop on indigenous crafts
The second BIOTRAILS stakeholder workshop on indigenous crafts was held on 1st October in Brasília-DF! Participants from various...
Oct 11, 20241 min read


Croda Foundation's first impact report
The Croda Foundation has launched its first Impact Report! 🎉 In this report, you can find out all about the Foundation's donations since...
Sep 25, 20241 min read


Strengthening the network of collectors
We are strengthening the network of collectors in Colíder, sharing technical and traditional knowledge about collecting native seeds....
Sep 23, 20241 min read

Discover the Apiaká: a warrior people of the Amazon
The Apiaká are a courageous people who inhabited the southern region of the Amazon in the 19th century, when rubber exploitation arrived...
Sep 12, 20242 min read

Kararrim Project: bringing solar energy to the Pontal, Kanyndé and Piraputuá villages
The Kararrim Project is a partnership between the Amazonas Institute and REM, REDD Early Movers Mato Grosso (REM MT), which will make the...
Sep 12, 20241 min read

Meet the Nambikwara ethnic group: resilience and tradition in Central Brazil
The story of the Nambikwara ethnic group is a fascinating journey of resilience, tradition and connection with nature. Originally from...
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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