Brazil: Neighborhood Energy and Creativity in the Atlantic Forest
Vitae Civilis grantee Guapiruvú Neighborhood Association (AGUA) and stimulates sustainable economic growth in São Paulo’s poorest region.
Peru: Indigenous Machiguenga People Work to Influence Camisea Pipeline
The Machiguenga people of Peru share the Urubamba River basin with the Nahua, Yine, Kugapakori, and other indigenous peoples. They also now share their lands with a consortium of companies that have arrived to extract natural gas and build the Camisea Pipeline, which will carry natural gas across some of the most remote, sensitive, and biologically rich lands in Peru.