Politics of the Amazon

Join our journey through the Amazon's beauty and challenges.

About politics in the amazon

Challenges the Amazon is facing

The Amazon's environmental crisis, marked by deforestation and resource exploitation, is deeply rooted in politics. Weak governance and policies often prioritize economic gains over conservation and indigenous rights, leading to inadequate protection and enforcement. This political landscape fuels the destruction of the rainforest and threatens its people, demanding urgent action and a shift in priorities towards sustainability and justice.

Indigenous Resistance in the Amazon

Understanding the violence in the Amazon requires acknowledging the desperate fight for survival waged by indigenous communities. Facing relentless encroachment on their ancestral lands by illegal loggers, miners, and agricultural interests, and often abandoned by ineffective state protection, some indigenous groups have resorted to defending their territories with force. These acts, while tragic, are often a last resort to protect their families, their culture, and the rainforest upon which their existence depends. Their resistance is not terrorism, but a response to the terror of environmental destruction and cultural annihilation.

The Expedition

The expedition, we will start at the meeting point of the two mighty Marañón and Ucayali Rivers from here we will kayak some 4,000 miles to the Atlantic ocean. while we kayak down river we will document our journary and and try to highlight the issues the local comunites face.

About politics of the amazon

Our Plan Of Actioin

Our Expedition: Into the Emerald Inferno

We embark on a perilous adventure into the very lungs of our planet, the Amazon River – a colossal serpent of life, unleashing a torrent of freshwater that dwarfs all others, a liquid artery sustaining a biodiversity so breathtaking it defies comprehension. Our journey will carve through nations – Peru, where the first whispers of this mighty river are heard high in the Andean peaks; Brazil, the behemoth that cradles the lion's share of its emerald embrace; and the borders of Colombia, each mile a testament to the intricate web of life teetering on a knife's edge.

From the glacial tears of the Andes, where nascent streams converge to birth the Amazon's raw power, we will descend into a realm of unparalleled beauty and lurking danger. We will navigate the sinuous embrace of its tributaries, witnessing firsthand the genesis of a force that shapes global climate. Then, as the Marañón and Ucayali rivers violently unite, forging the main trunk of the Amazon, we will be swept into a green abyss, where sunlight struggles to penetrate the dense canopy and the air hangs heavy with the secrets of untold species. Through flooded forests that vanish beneath rising tides and terra firme uplands teeming with unseen life, our path will be a visceral encounter with nature's most extravagant masterpiece.

Unmasking the Political Beast:

But this vast treasure is under siege, strangled by the venomous tendrils of political machinations. The fate of the Amazon, and its ancient guardians, the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with its rhythms for millennia, hangs precariously in the balance. Weakened by the insidious corrosion of corruption, swayed by the short-sighted economic policies, and scarred by the unchecked rampage of illegal logging, the insatiable hunger of agribusiness (where cattle ranching's devastating footprint claims dominion over 80% of the ravaged lands), and the toxic greed of unregulated mining (poisoning vital waterways with an estimated 100 tons of mercury), the rainforest bleeds. The very laws meant to protect this treasure are rendered toothless by a lack of enforcement, while the ancestral territories of indigenous communities, a mere 20% of this vastness, are left as battlegrounds for exploitation. Our expedition will plunge into this political quagmire, exposing the puppet masters and the pawns, dissecting the policies that condemn this vital ecosystem to ruin, and amplifying the desperate cries of those who stand against the tide. We will witness the direct correlation between shifting political winds and the escalating rates of deforestation, a stark testament to the deadly consequences of inaction.

We venture into this emerald inferno not just to witness, but to ignite a fire of awareness, to drag the hidden truths into the harsh light of day, and to fuel a global outcry for the salvation of the Amazon, before its heart ceases to beat.