RT @alianzabosques: 🌿For 15+ years, we’ve united Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities to protect forests, oceans, and mangroves from Mexi…

As we wrap up 2024, we’re filled with gratitude for a year of connection, resilience, and bravery. 🌍✨ Thank you for standing with us in our mission to protect our Earth. We’ll be taking a break until early January to recharge for 2025—a year of renewed hope and bold action. 💚 Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a harmonious new year! 🎉

On the final day we leaned about the two new caucuses that will allow the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities respectively. We hope for the growth and the increased interconnection between all three of the Rio Conventions. @GofTomorrow @alianzabosques @SaraOmi30

Your support strengthens our struggle and unites us across distances, from the Amazon Basin to Indonesia, the Congo Basin, Mesoamerica, and across Brazil. Let’s continue this journey together as we welcome 2025. 🏹🌳 👉🏻 Continue supporting our work at

Women from our Indigenous Peoples and local communities are on the frontlines of both the climate crisis and its solutions. Despite facing disproportionate risks—14 times more likely to die in disasters—they lead efforts to preserve biodiversity, protect forests, and combat climate change through ancestral knowledge and sustainable practices. Ensuring their rights and meaningful participation it’s key to safeguarding our planet's future, as they guard Mother Earth. #ClimateAction #IndigenousWomen #GenderEquality

🌍 At COP16 UNCCD, Aissatou Oumarou highlights the powerful potential of knowledge exchange between Indigenous Peoples, institutions, and governments to restore our lands. 🌱 By uniting traditional wisdom with modern innovation, we can keep lands and soils healthy. #COP16Riyadh #LandRestoration #REPALEAC

The Forum set the stage for integrating ancestral knowledge into global policies and reaffirmed that there’s no future for our planet without Indigenous Peoples leadership. Let’s continue to amplify these voices. #UNCCD #COP16Riyadh #IndigenousRights

Presenting the delegation leaders of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities who are currently representing our demands at COP16 - UNCCD in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2-13 December 2024). Get to know the leaders who are advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities across Mesoamerica, Central Africa, and South America. With a focus on women's leadership, territorial rights, and environmental protection, these leaders will bring vital voices to the global stage at COP16 to fight desertification. #COP16Riyadh

Did you know there are three different COPs addressing our planet’s most pressing crises? 🌏 Since 1992, the Rio Conventions—UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD—have worked to combat climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. These challenges are deeply interconnected, and so are the solutions. Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge and stewardship are vital in this effort, offering pathways to resilience and sustainability. This year, GATC joined UNCCD, amplifying Indigenous Peoples voices across all three conventions and shaping a future that values both people and planet. @GofTomorrow #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateAction #RioConventions #GATC

Cristiane Julião Pankararu is reporting from Riyadh, where COP16 on Desertification is underway. She’s amplifying the voices of Indigenous Peoples and advocating for their rights in the fight against desertification and climate change. 🌍✨ #cop16riyadh

Indigenous women and women from local communities carry the heartbeat of the land in our veins. To guard our bodies is to honor and safeguard our ancestral territories. Every act of protection, every step toward safety, and every voice raised for our rights is a stand for the preservation of life—of women, of forests, of our shared Earth. This #16DaysofWomenActivism, we remember: the well-being of women and the well-being of our territories are intertwined. Harm to one is harm to all. Let’s defend both with urgency and unity. #GuardiansOfTomorrow

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“It is necessary to continue promoting our perspective as Indigenous Peoples because it is within our knowledge that sustainable development can be achieved, but from our own vision as Indigenous Peoples.” - Sara Omi, @alianzabosques Losses and damages from climate change are already devastating Indigenous territories. Sara Omi highlights the urgent need for climate financing and the critical role Indigenous women play in mitigating and adapting to climate change. @goftomorrow

Juan Carlos also spoke at Global Solutions for Local Needs: “We, Indigenous Peoples, don’t just bring demands—we bring solutions.” The Shandia Platform connects Indigenous-led funds like Mesoamerican Territorial Fund & Nusantara Fund, showing a clear path for donors to support Indigenous territories directly. #ThePledgeWeWant