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1 month ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Nemonte Nenquimo |Mitch Anderson
Activist Nenquimo and her husband, Anderson (founder and director, Amazon Frontlines), offer an extraordinary debut memoir of Nenquimo’s childhood and coming-of-age in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Nenquimo is a member of the Waorani tribe, a group of Indigenous people who had little experience with the outside world until missionaries from the United States initiated contact in the 1950s.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
wired.jp | Nemonte Nenquimo
世界中のビジョナリーや起業家、ビッグシンカーがキーワードを掲げ、2025年の最重要パラダイムを読み解く恒例の総力特集「THE WIRED WORLD IN 2025」。アマゾンに暮らす先住民族の権利保護や熱帯雨林の保護に取り組むネモンテ・ネンキモとミッチ・アンダーソンは、先住民の知恵によって森は再生するのだと確信する。 2025年、自らを「多彩な民」と称する先住民族が、80年の時を経て故郷の地に帰還する。この出来事は、アマゾン熱帯雨林全域で祖先伝来の土地の法的権利を求めて闘う先住民族たちの活動を勇気づけ、勝利への道を開くことになるだろう。そしてその勝利は、地球規模で重要な意味をもつことになる。...
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Nemonte Nenquimo |Amy Goodman
In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction in a biodiverse section of the Amazon’s Yasuní National Park — a historic referendum result that will protect Indigenous Yasuní land from development.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Nemonte Nenquimo
Nemonte Nenquimo Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader from the Waorani Nation in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. In 2023, she helped win passage of a referendum in Ecuador to block oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest’s Yasuní Park. She is a co-founder of Amazon Frontlines and the Ceibo Alliance.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
wired.com | Nemonte Nenquimo |Mitch Anderson
In 2025, a small, indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for the first time in 80 years. Their return will drive a movement of indigenous peoples across the Amazon rainforest fighting for legal titles to their ancestral territories, and winning. These victories will have global significance. The Siekopai lived for centuries along what is now the border between Ecuador and Peru in the western Amazon.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Nemonte Nenquimo |Mitch Anderson
Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
coveringclimatenow.org | Nemonte Nenquimo |Mitch Anderson |Abrams Press
Climate change often manifests as violence, and violence often amplifies climate change. Recent weeks have illustrated both sides of this grim coin. Amped by super-hot sea water, Hurricanes Helene and Milton inflicted death and destruction across the southeastern US. On the other side of the world, the massive amounts of oil burned by tanks, planes, and other equipment in wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and central Africa released yet more heat-trapping pollution.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Nemonte Nenquimo
Nemonte NenquimoOctober 2, 2024 7:07 AM EDTMining and oil executives tend to see us—young, Indigenous leaders—as obstacles to be overcome or, at best, as adornments for their websites and annual reports. It can often take years of organizing and struggle, and a brilliantly crafted lawsuit, to grab their attention. Australian climate activist Murrawah Maroochy Johnson and her Youth Verdict co-director Monique Jeffs did exactly that.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
memoirland.substack.com | Nemonte Nenquimo |Thea Lim |Neesha Powell-Ingabire |Alexandra Middleton
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Roads She’s Traveled,” by .
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
amazonfrontlines.org | Nemonte Nenquimo |Mitch Anderson |Leonardo DiCaprio |Vanessa Kirby
Nemonte Nenquimo is a Waorani woman, mother and climate leader, who has dedicated her life to the defense of Indigenous ancestral territory and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest. She is the co-founder of the Indigenous-led nonprofit organization Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines.
