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From YouTube: Building on Successful Large-Scale Conservation Model w/ Indigenous Peoples - John Meisner - Montaña
Description
The last large tract of forest surviving in the highly threatened southeastern Amazon would not exist but for the determination of the Kayapo and Panara Indigenous people and their alliances with conservation and indigenous rights NGOs. Conservation and development investment over the past 20 years has empowered the Kayapo and Panara to secure the integrity of 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of their ratified indigenous territory. In Brazil, which holds 60% of the Amazon rainforest, the threats are intensifying.
This project has remained innovative in adopting new models such as indigenous led defense programs, to web3 strategies.
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A
A
I'm
here
today,
on
behalf
of
the
international
conservation
fund
of
Canada,
to
talk
about
the
kaipo
project,
which
is
one
of
our
Flagship
projects
and
how
we're
building
on
a
successful
model
of
large-scale
conservation
with
indigenous
people
and
then
further
on,
like
how
we're
exploring
web3
platforms
and
Technologies
with
some
folks
who
are
actually
here
today.
So
you
know
since
we're
all
in
the
same
room.
Some
of
you
may
have
seen
this
figure
already
today.
A
It's
not
really
a
debate
anymore,
whether
or
not
the
climate
crisis
is
bound
to
happen
or
how
far
away
it
is.
It
is
here
that
is
certain
deforestation,
as
you
can
see
in
this
very
Stark
time
lapse
is
one
of
the
key
drivers.
This
is
in
matagroso
Brazil,
and
that
is
a
state
in
the
Brazilian
Amazon,
which
is
in
the
southeastern
region
of
the
Brazilian
Amazon,
and
at
one
point
before
all
this
it
had
a
lot.
It
was
very
full
of
primary
rainforest
very
pristine.
However,
most
of
that
has
been
completely
compromised.
A
A
They
have
made
waves
over
the
last
decades
due
to
their
them
surmounting
the
odds
in
the
fight
for
their
land
after
contact
in
the
1950s
through
to
the
1960s
1970s.
Before
they
had
basically
any
legal
support,
they
did.
They
were
so
successful
in
their
fight
that
they
actually
were
a
major
Catalyst
to
article
231
in
the
1988
Brazilian
Constitution,
which
basically
legally
demarcated
and
gave
land
to
the
indigenous,
and
so
they
have
this
very
like
historic,
Warrior
culture
and
still
they
maintain
that
livelihood.
A
A
You
can
take
a
little
closer
look
here,
so
this
is
like
a
very
Stark
visual
between
you
know
what
the
difference
is
between
ratified,
manage
protected
land
and
everything
that
lays
outside.
So
this
is
an
aerial
on
one
of
the
Eastern
fronts
of
their
territory,
and
you
can
see
the
two
main
culprits
of
Amazon
deforestation
and
Amazon
destruction,
so
the
first
one
being
clear-cut
for
cattle
ranching.
That's
predominantly
the
number
one,
as
well
as
a
much
more
Insidious
practice,
which
is
illegal
gold
mining.
So
you
can
see
adjacent
to
that
River.
A
You
can
see
these
illegal
gold
mining
pits,
and
the
irony
here
is
that
that's
actually
called
the
heelfresco,
which
means
like
fresh
River
and
it's
been
rendered
completely
inert
ecologically
and
that's
due
to
just
the
turmoil
and
an
upturn
of
gold
sediment
and
that
completely
reduces
the
ecological
activity
in
that
River.
So
you
can
see
like,
despite
everything
that's
going
on,
they
still
maintain
their
land
for
only
ten
thousand
within
a
10
million
hectare
land.
They
remain
successful.
So,
oh
to
give
you
an
idea.
A
This
is
the
size
we're
talking
about
it's
it's
literally
the
size
of
a
small
country
I
because
we
were
in
South.
America
I
actually
wanted
to
do
an
overlay,
because
this
is
a
latam
event
and
this
territory
is
not
too
far
off
of
Ecuador,
even
as
an
entire
nation,
it's
1.6
billion
tons
of
carbon,
and
you
know
you
might
ask
okay
well,
how
is
this
possible
like?
A
A
We
like
to
say
that
the
three
core
pillars
of
the
kaipo
project
are
institutional,
strengthening
territorial
monitoring
and
surveillance
and
sustainable
Enterprise
development
So,
within
that
we
have
these.
Also,
these
high
level
pillars
as
well
so,
first
and
foremost
being
the
NGO
Alliance.
So
we
have
a
coalition
of
three
Brazilian
ngos
that
are
on
the
ground
doing
the
work
they
are
working
with
the
kaiapo.
They
have
kaipo
staff,
they
help
administer
funding,
manage
funding.
A
They
also
help
give
speed
to
things
like
legal
support
and
political
mobilization,
which
we've
been
seeing
huge
demonstrations
in
places
like
Brasilia
in
the
last
two
years,
with
other
indigenous
groups
actually
getting
themselves
mobile,
organizing
and
and
creating.
You
know,
demonstrations
for
change
capacity
for
territorial
monitoring
and
control.
A
This
is
a
big
one
that
I'm
going
to
get
into
in
a
minute
development
of
economic
autonomy,
so
we
saw
with
Suriname
the
kaipo
project
is
doing
very
similar
things
with
Brazil
nut
exports
and
as
well
with
kumaru
to
sustainable
Brands,
and
that
money
is
going
directly
back
to
the
kaipo.
It's
going
straight
back
into
the
villages,
so
they
can
keep
funding
their
own
lives
and
livelihoods
and
then
finally
strengthening
traditional
indigenous
culture
and
livelihood,
so,
for
instance,
with
territorial
monitoring
and
control.
This
is
the
guard
post
program,
so
kaipo
Project
Director,
Barb
Zimmerman.
A
She
has
spent
probably
the
better
half
of
a
decade
getting
this
program
off
the
ground
and
it's
been
around
like
a
huge
success.
So
essentially
what
it
is
is
we
have
13
guard
posts
situated
at
key
entry
points
to
the
territory
and
areas
of
high
exposure.
These
guard
boasts
are
manned
by
the
kayapo
they're
operated
by
the
kayapo
they're,
led
by
the
kayapo.
A
This
also
brings
funding
in
to
their
local
communities
as
well,
and
the
ensuing
results
have
been
huge
illegal
entry,
especially
by
boat
for
things
like
net
fishing,
have
dropped
virtually
by
a
hundred
percent
in
the
last
couple
years,
and
this
has
allowed
things
like
fish
stocks
to
rebound
completely
to
the
point
where
we're
even
getting
reports
from
towns
outside
of
the
territory
in
Brazil
that
you
know
these
small
Frontier
towns,
their
own
marketplaces,
are
doing
better
because
of
it
with
things
like
fish
trade.
So
it's
been
a
huge
success.
A
However,
it
is
expensive:
it's
about
2
million
USD
a
year
to
fund
this.
So,
like
all
conservation
organizations,
we
are
looking
to
innovate
and
figure
out
new
ways
of
fundraising
and
I
wanted
to
just
make
a
clear
note
as
well:
going
can
I
go
back
yes,
I.
Can
everything
within
these
pillars
cannot
function
without
outside
investment,
Public,
Funding
and
bilateral
funding?
Just
does
not
work
so,
basically,
all
areas
historically
in
the
kaipo
region
that
have
been
compromised,
especially
to
the
east,
they
were
ones
that
did
not
receive
that
monetary
support
and
it
is
expensive.
A
Defending
and
protecting
10
million
hectares
of
primary
Forest
so
with
that
new
technologies
right
we're
here
to
talk
about
web3,
what's
happening
there,
we're
really
really
excited
to
be
working
with
gainforce,
trying
to
kick
off
this
new
pilot
project
with
them
and
what
exactly
that
looks
like
so
there's
tons
of
different
project
programs
that
are
happening
within
the
kaipo
organizations
and
the
Coalition
of
organizations
and
getting
into
that
so
with
gain
Forest.
We
can
see
here
on
one
of
their
modules.
A
Their
goal
with
the
kaipa
project
is
to
do
a
top-down
transparency
model,
so
starting
from
satellite
imagery,
using
machine
learning
and
AI
technology
and
that
trickles
down
all
the
way
into
drone
and
field
work
as
well,
so
going
into
that
at
the
field
level,
the
kaepo
territory
is
teeming
with
Wildlife.
It's
it's
incredible.
So
two
of
the
species
here
like,
for
instance,
I'm
I,
took
all
of
these
photos
and
I
am
by
no
means
a
wildlife
photographer.
A
If
that
puts
in
any
sense,
we
have
the
highest
into
the
car
endangered
species
flourishing,
the
spider
monkey
on
the
right
absolutely
in
abundance
as
well,
because
they
have
all
of
this
land
to
work
with
so
I'm
running
out
of
time
here,
but
more
about
the
field.
Data
is
the
camera
trapping
project
so
with
the
local
Village
that
we've
been
starting.