We will talk about empowerment of community-based initiatives, showing the case of Uakari & Wiñak and how both projects not only help the (local) environment based on sustainability practices and how the local communities play a key role in its development & success.
Presenting the success case of Uakari Lodge - a pioneer ecotourism initiative in the Brazilian Rainforest - which reflects on the larger role community-based tourism may play in influencing public policies on protected areas, conservation, biodiversity and sustainable development.
At the same time providing economic development & empowerment to the local communities.
We will talk with Priscila, who is an activist for sustainability projects in her home country (Brazil) and visited the Reserve last year.
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Patagonia Berlin
Münzstraße 10
10178 Berlin
Uakari Lodge is a pioneer initiative in Community Based Tourism in Brazil and seeks to be the best example of ecotourism in the Amazon. In addition to discovering and being amazed by the preserved nature at Mamirauá Reserve, our guests experience the culture of traditional communities and contribute to the conservation of local biodiversity.
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve is a state conservation unit located in the heart of the Amazon, between the Amazon, Japurá and Auati-Paraná rivers. Mamirauá is the largest reserve in lowland ecosystem in the Brazilian Amazon, with an extension of 1,124,000 ha.
Inserted in the Central Corridor of the Amazon, it is part of the Amazon Biosphere Reserve, in addition to being one of the reserves recognized by the Ramsar Convention - which protects floodplains of great relevance.
Every year the reserve goes through a time of low and high water levels, a variation of about 10 to 12 meters! This highly dynamic environment required adaptation by everyone who inhabits it: riverside and indigenous people, flora and fauna (which is why we have many endemic species).
We are a large family of Kichwa farmers, organized to promote the development and sustainability of our families and communities.
Wiñak is an autonomous and community, non-profit organization that aims to improve the living conditions of its associates, especially women and young people, managing to merge producers, society and nature.
Wiñak, which translated into Spanish means "Development and Progress", reflects the feelings of the small Kichwa farmers surrounded by the Sumaco, Napo Galera and Colonso Chalupas Biosphere reserves in Ecuador.
