Las Lianas Resource Center for 
Science, Culture, & Environment

Dedicated to sustainable development, environmental preservation, 
and cultural survival through partnerships with indigenous peoples.





Current Projects
fish for dinner

Monitoring seismic testing


 

dialogue about oil
 
Indigenous Aquaculture
Las Lianas collaborates in work for sustainable food production through fish farming with the Secoya people of the Aguarico River in northeastern Ecuador. Read more

Ancestral Lands
Las Lianas supports territorial rights in Ecuador's southern Amazon region and works toward a vision of coherent, unified land titles in the name of each indigenous nationality. Read more

Environmental
Monitoring
Las Lianas is developing methods for environmental monitoring which draw equally on indigenous and scientific understandings of Amazonian ecosystems. Read More

Responses to 
Oil Development
Las Lianas provides legal and technical support to the Secoya people as they work limit impacts of oil exploration in their territory. Las Lianas also studies oil development throughout Ecuador's Amazon region and acts as an information center for affected communities and their allies. Read More

Responses to 
Plan Colombia
Las Lianas provides scientific information about Plan Colombia and the human and environmental effects of U.S. sponsored aerial herbicide spraying in the Amazon region.  Read More


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