🌿📚 A Year of Powerful Knowledge Sharing: Publications and Presentations from Our Amazon Indigenous Wisdom Project (2024–2025) 🌎🔥
We are delighted to celebrate the outstanding contributions of our interdisciplinary and intercultural team across Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal. From academic conferences and seminars to community events and international research forums, our team — made up of Indigenous leaders, students, researchers, and academics — has powerfully advanced the conversation on Indigenous knowledge, climate justice, and participatory research.
Here is a detailed overview of our achievements:
🔍 Publications and Presentations – 2024
📌 Taís Beltrame dos Santos presented “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom: Shaping Climate Solutions in Brazil” at the 26th Postgraduate Research Meeting, as part of the 10th Integrated Week of UFPel (SIIEPE), held in Pelotas, Brazil.
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📌 Maria Elisa Gattiboni delivered the presentation “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom and Climate Solutions in Brazil: Work Package 1” at the 33rd Undergraduate Scientific Initiation Congress, also during the SIIEPE – UFPel.
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📌 Tifany Cardoso presented “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom: Work Package 2” at the same congress.
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📌 Taís Beltrame, Adriana Portella, and colleagues gave an oral presentation titled “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom: Shaping Climate Solutions in Brazil” at the 2nd Gaúcho Workshop on Climate Change, Capão do Leão, Brazil.
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📌 Dr Adriana Portella presented “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom: Shaping Climate Solutions in Brazil” at the 3rd International Research Meeting – Strategies to Mitigate Climate and Conflict Risks, held at the University of A Coruña, Spain.
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📌 Dr Portella also shared the project in the Research Centre for Urban Studies seminar at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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📌 Dr Portella also shared the project in the CABS and Psychology research seminar at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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🎓 Publications and Presentations – 2025
📌 Silvia Helena Cardoso gave two academic presentations of the project “Mae Mekea: Amazon Indigenous Wisdom – Shaping Climate Solutions in Brazil”:
- At the Postgraduate Specialisation Course in Environmental Education, UFPel, Brazil.
- In the undergraduate Geography and Social Sciences courses, UFPel, Brazil.
📌 At the 12th PROJETAR Conference (Reexisting in the Contemporary World: Interpret, Conserve and Transform), held in Pelotas, Brazil, our team will do the following presentations:
📝 Adriana Portella, Silvia Helena Cardoso, Sinval Cantarelli Xavier, Duzilda Pinheiro Paulino Kaxinawá, and Maria de Fátima Sales Sereno Kaxinawá presented:
“Water Scarcity and Food Insecurity in the Brazilian Amazon: The Challenges Faced by Indigenous Communities”
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📝 Cíntia Langie and Tomaz Klotzel presented:
“Listening as a Creative Practice: The Mae Mekea Documentary”
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📝 Sinval Cantarelli Xavier, Adriana Portella, Eduardo Rocha, Taís Beltrame, and Tifany Cardoso presented:
“Between Maps and Knowledges: Geographic Information Systems and Indigenous Wisdom in Climate Solutions”
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📝 Eduardo Rocha, Dayse Albuquerque, Lisandra Krebs, Taís Beltrame, and Tifany Cardoso presented:
“Amazonian Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Crisis: Absences and Possibilities in Brazilian Law”
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📝 Dayse Albuquerque and Guilherme Paim presented:
“Indigenous Territorialities and Environmental Governance in the Climate Agenda: Dialogues and Tensions”
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📘 One of our major achievements is the publication of our open-access e-book:
Portella, A., Rocha, E., Krebs, L., Albuquerque, D. S., Mascarenhas, G., Xavier, S. C., Langie, C., Klotzel, T., & Cardoso, S. (2025).
From the Amazon to the World: Confronting Climate Change Together, 1st edition, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
📖 Read the book here
📌 Finally, Dr Adriana Portella presented “Amazon Indigenous Wisdom – Shaping Climate Solutions in Brazil” at the 1st Luso-Brazilian Congress on Law, Justice, and Contemporary Challenges, held at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal.
📄 [Link pending official listing]
🪶 These publications and presentations reflect the heart of our project: bridging Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to build fair, inclusive, and effective climate solutions. We are deeply grateful to all team members — students, researchers, Indigenous leaders, and partner institutions — who have made this extraordinary output possible.
🌍 Together, we are reshaping global conversations on climate governance — from the Amazon to the world.