Why Protect Natural Resources? Goal #15: Manage number of resource assets sustainably
Fundamental to human life and well- being
Environmental sustainability Social inclusion Economic prosperity Natural Resources
Once they’re gone, they’re gone for good
Loss of natural resources will reverse progress in end of hunger
Why Water For People? Why Pachamama?
Bringing forth an environmentally sustainable spiritually fulfilling socially just human presence on this planet
Non-profit organization founded in Formed at request of indigenous peoples of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Supports indigenous peoples to preserve their land and culture. Request to “change the dream” of the modern world. In 2005 launched Awakening the Dreamer Symposium.
An overview
Rights of nature
Indigenous resilience
Jungle mamas
Changing the dream
Questions?