A New Wave of Hope in the Amazon Unification of the Indigenous Tribes of the Amazon against Oil Exploitation. After suffering decades of division, disorder and destruction driven by multinational oil companies plundering the Amazon Rainforest, twelve distinct local indigenous groups from the eight different major tributaries that become the…

In May 2011, Alianza Arkana supported PDDI - Program for the Defense of Indigenous People’s Rights - to over critical legal support for 18 apus and other leaders from Quechua communities on the Rio Pastaza who travelled to Iquitos to confront the regional government of Loreto over long-neglected services such…

For the last 11 years, Alfonso Lopez Tejada, leader of 54 Kukama communities of the Rio Marañon, has been pushed by the mounting oil conflicts to help his communities along the Marañon and Ucayali rivers to return to their Indigenous roots and rights after suffering a series of devastating spills…

Alianza Arkana recently funded Kukama leader Alfonso Lopez Tejada’s 45-day trip up the Rio Marañon to reunify his federation’s base communities in preparation for a lawsuit against Argentinian oil company Pluspetrol. The success of this trip helped Alfonso, who is president of ACODECOSPAT (Asociación Cocama de Desarrollo y Conservación San…