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At home

in the Amazon

Rebeca Ucha,
Marketing Analyst, Sparta Corporate Solutions www.spartasolutions.com.br

The Guardians of the Amazon Amazonia and its people and education that values their traditional
need help: the indigenous groups The Amazon River Basin is home to the cultures.
who are putting their lives at largest rainforest in the world. With the
risk to save the Amazon from largest concentration of biodiversity on Indigenous people and traditional
destruction. the planet, the majority of the Amazon communities protect forests daily, they
rainforest (about 60%) is contained in risk their lives to denounce illegal activities
Brazil. But, the reality of health and life in in their territories and they are fighting to
the Amazon is very different from the rest defend their earned rights as the Guardians
of Brazil. For indigenous people hunting, of the Amazon.
fishing and extractivism are their regular
sources of food and income. In addition Quilombola community
to indigenous people, other traditional Quilombos are made up of formerly
populations in the Amazon are not so enslaved men and women who fled and
well known, namely the Quilombolas took refuge in the Amazon. They preserve
and Ribeirinhos. Sparta works with these the customs and culture of their ancestors,
communities at one of their headquarters, such as knowledge of medicinal herbs and
located in Belém do Pará, northern Brazil. the practice of extractivism.

Indian people Ribeirinhos community
Indigenous people have incomparable Ribeirinhos people live near rivers where
knowledge of fauna and flora and play a key fishing is both a source of survival and
role in biodiversity conservation. Currently, income. The production of flour, collection
there are more than 200 indigenous groups of nuts and açaí are also highlighted in the
in the Amazon, protecting and controlling agricultural activities of the community,
their lands. Their rights are respected under which has immense knowledge of the
national and international legislation, they forest fauna and flora, use of medicinal
have guaranteed access to health care plants and sounds of the forest.

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