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Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM) is a network with a thousand organizations from the Amazon "to create a development model that privileges the poor and serves the common good".
Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) (Spanish: Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica) was founded in 1984 in Lima, Peru. This organization coordinates the following nine national Amazonian indigenous organizations: Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana ...
Peruvian Amazonia (Spanish: Amazonía del Perú), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. This region comprises 60% of the country and is marked ...
The Amazon Defense Coalition (Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia) is an Ecuadorian non-governmental organization created on May 16, 1994, and approved by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Social Welfare on June 4, 1998, under ministerial reference #535. [1] It is led by the environmental and human rights activist Luis Yanza. [2]
3rd Jungle Infantry Battalion (3º Batalhão de Infantaria de Selva) in Tefé "Rio Negro" Frontier Command/ 5th Jungle Infantry Battalion (Comando de Fronteira - Rio Negro e 5º Batalhão de Infantaria de Selva) in São Gabriel da Cachoeira; 22nd Jungle Signals Platoon (22º Pelotão de Comunicações de Selva) in Porto Velho
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
It is bordered on the north by San Miguel and Putumayo rivers and on the east and south by Peru.Oriente has an area of about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km) and consists of little-explored and virtually unexploited tropical forest inhabited by a tiny fraction of the country's population, living mostly in small villages along the river courses.
Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva de las Bases frente al Extractivismo (English: Amazonian Women Defending the Forest from Extractivism), also known as Mujeres Amazónicas (English: Amazonian Women), is an Indigenous environmental rights group. [1]