Our action

3 Theme Areas

• Accompaniment and protection of the life process of the groups in voluntary isolation, before and also after contact
   
• Strengthening of the Ayoreo ethnic group on the whole, and search for a sustainable future in coexistence with ancestral territories and the forest
   
• Promotion of learning processes through incentives for reflection, and in general contributions targeting the non-indigenous surrounding society and modern societies in general

Multidisciplinary Action

The activities of Iniciativa Amotocodie are harmonized in the following multi-disciplinary manner

Some of the Planned or Ongoing Activities (2006)

• permanent on-the-ground monitoring of the areas inhabited by the groups without contact, from the margins of their territories; complementary permanent monitoring of new satellite images
   

  • to advise about and avoid situations of risk for the bush groups and inhabitants of the area
     
  • to avoid alteration of the environment
     
    
• accompaniment of trips organized by UNAP which enable elderly Ayoreo to visit and to recover their bonds with their ancestral territories
   

  • re-establishment of ties with the lost territories
     
  • understanding and retrieval of their own history
     
  • gradual definition of criteria for future coexistence with the territories
     
    
• new purchases of land, as part of the manifold protection strategy of the area and the groups without contact
   

  • the land purchased in 2005 (3,740 has. of virgin forest) is part of the habitat currently used by one of the group in voluntary isolation; it increases present protection, but also provides future safety, for them and, eventually and after the contact is established, for the entire Ayoreo ethnic group
     
    
• definition, together with the Ayoreo, of criteria for the protection and future management of the resources of the purchased land as well as of the ancient territories in general
   

  • gradual definition of the criteria for future coexistence and exploitation of the ancestral territories and retrieved areas with or without property title