Fundación Gaia Amazonas - Colombia

Gaia Amazonas Foundation (FGA) has been carrying out activities in the Colombian Amazon for more than 15 years, with the aim of consolidating in the hands of the Amazon indigenous peoples the administration and conservation of their territories, in accordance with the rights that are assigned to these peoples through International Conventions, the Political Constitution, state policies, and in norms that are being developed. It was established by a group of people who have supported the conservation of cultural and biological diversity in the Amazon forest since the 1970s, and was legally registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in 1994.

Since its outset FGA has led the COAMA (Consolidation of the Amazon) programme, a network of Colombian NGOs with one European counterpart, that shares common objectives for the conservation of the Amazon forest and support for implementing the rights of indigenous peoples. Other FGA projects include:

• Political-administrative decentralization in the department of Amazonas: establishing ETIs.
• Indigenous environmental management.
• Productive projects.
  
• Inter-cultural health.
  
• Training of indigenous leaders to administrate ETIs in the department of Amazonas.
  
• Strengthening local indigenous governance for conservation of the Amazon forest.
  
• Strengthening of the trans--boundary initiative CANOA (Consolidation and Alliance in the Northwest Amazon – www.canoa.org.co)

FGA has an inter-disciplinary and administrative staff of 28 persons, including anthropologists, biologists, lawyers, pedagogues, linguists and political scientists, specialized in field work with Amazon Indians.

The geographical coverage of its activities is approximately 18 million hectares of tropical forest in the Colombian Amazon, inhabited by 45,000 indigenous people, in the departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía.

Director: Dr. Martín von Hildebrand

Contact:
Carrera 4 No.26B-31
Bogotá
Colombia
Tel: +57 1 2814925
Fax: +57 1 2814945
E-mail: coordinacion@gaiaamazonas.org
Web: www.gaiaamazonas.org www.coama.org.co

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