Por: Nacionalidad Waorani del Ecuador
Los Waorani somos un pueblo de reciente contacto. Hace 60 años fuimos forzados a entrar en relación con el mundo exterior. Sin embargo, mucho antes de la llamada “civilización”, ya teníamos nuestros propios sistemas de comunicación.
By Shimron Kiptoo (Ogiek), Assistant Project officer, Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project/Tulwoob Koony Radio, Kenya
By Suresh Sayanju, Station Manager, Radio Janasanchar 107.9 FM, Nepal
For generations, the Newar Peoples of the Kathmandu Valley have lived closely with nature. But today, beneath the capital city’s growing concrete landscape, a quiet crisis is unfolding. Rapid urbanization, rising temperatures, and unpredictable weather are doing more than harming the environment: they are erasing the centuries-old culture and way of life of the valley’s original inhabitants.
By Sin Bolai, Program Officer, Conserve Indigenous Peoples Language Organization
By Sin Bolai, Program Officer, Conserve Indigenous Peoples Language Organization
By Agenonga Robert, Executive Director, Environmental Defender (Radio Terra FM), Uganda
A corporate gold rush along the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is taking land from Indigenous communities and polluting vital water sources. Yet, where global corporations expected little resistance, a powerful movement is growing, led by local women demanding accountability and environmental justice.
By Rama Wijaya (Ma’la’bo’)
Before we began broadcasting about mining, we were already witnessing changes around us. The forests in our highlands were slowly being cleared. Trucks passed through village roads more frequently. Rivers that once ran clear began to turn cloudy after heavy rain. Farmers started questioning whether their soil would remain fertile. In Mamasa, environmental change is not an abstract issue. It is something we see, hear, and feel every day.
By Pardo Mwetaminwa, Coordinator, Union of Indigenous Peoples for Peace and Endogenous Development (UPADE)
In the remote villages of the Fizi region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a quiet but powerful change is taking place. For years, Indigenous communities watched as their ancestral lands and territories were dug up and their rivers turned cloudy by mining companies. Families saw their fields destroyed and did not know how to speak out, or who would listen. That silence has now been broken.
By Veronique Wanyema Saleh, Coordinator, Femmes Pymees en Action (FEPA), Radio Kivu, FM Congo
"Buscamos que no se corte la cadena de transmisión pues donde no hay recambio se pierde el conocimiento y nuestro mundo se achica" - Organización socia del Fondo de Medios Comunitarios 2026.
Miranda Gonzalez Wicky
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
