Rejecting the commodification of life, he denounces false climate solutions such as carbon-offset projects, and calls for alternatives like agroforestry and community-based resource management. In May 2023, he was appointed coordinator of the Special Indigenous Health District of Alto Purus, strengthening his commitment to the health of Indigenous Peoples.

Since 2017, Ninawa has worked closely with Planète Amazone, an NGO co-founder of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians. He played a central role at the Great Assembly in Brasília and in drafting the Alliance’s founding Declaration, before carrying this message to Europe. This collaboration has continued through the Terra Libre (2019) tour, the Protégeons l’Amazonie web series (2021), and especially Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth, in which he is one of the film’s principal witnesses. Present from the development phase onward, he has taken part in strategic screenings: at Brussels City Hall in June 2024, at COP16 in Cali in October, then in Paris in April 2025 at a screening hosted by the French Embassy. That same month, he spoke at the ChangeNOW Summit to bring the Indigenous perspective to the international stage.

The film’s poster, designed by Gert-Peter Bruch and painted by Elen Ture, depicts a jaguar’s eye—his family’s totem animal—in which the Earth and the cosmos are reflected: a powerful symbol of the gaze the forest casts upon our humanity.

Threatened repeatedly for his positions, the Cacique Ninawa continues his struggle tirelessly. For him, protecting the Amazon means defending a living memory, a sacred balance, and the future of all generations.