The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together thirty Indigenous nations of the upper Amazon, in Ecuador and Peru, who are self-organizing to defend a forest devastated by the forces of extraction that is unchecked devouring the territory. Their leaders are on high alert due to the devastating effects of climate change on nature, which they see as a living being with a spiritual entity. How do they face this existential crisis? What worldview do they propose to save the forest and the planet? Are we still in time to avoid a point of no return?

Read more: ‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon