Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth is much more than a film: it is the heart of an international impact project led by the NGO Planète Amazone and its allies, to protect the Amazon rainforest, the Indigenous Peoples who are its guardians, and the ecosystems essential to life.
Born in Brazilian Indigenous territories and grounded in more than 35 years of cooperation, our project operates on several fronts: public awareness, international advocacy, educational programs, and the strengthening of Indigenous cultures and institutions.
4 MAJOR PILLARS TO PREPARE THE GUARDIANS
Through this project, the Amazon becomes a bridge between generations, cultures, and continents.
A living alliance for Mother Earth that everyone can join.
Reconnecting education
In the face of today’s major challenges — climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and growing inequalities — Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth mobilizes all education stakeholders through concrete and innovative initiatives.
Education is the primary lever for ecological transition. The project offers a comprehensive program that:
Raises awareness and prepares youth
With a range of adaptable audiovisual content for all audiences. Screenings and discussions of the film Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth, enriched by live or virtual testimonials from Indigenous leaders and actors in the ecological transition, in middle schools, high schools, and higher education. Short clips and dubbed testimonies for younger audiences (e.g., the Protecting the Amazon docu-series), and thematic excerpts from our first feature film Terra Libre for secondary students.
Provides intercultural educational resources
Inclusive, practical tools co-created with Indigenous and traditional communities to build bridges between ancestral knowledge and academic education.
Equips teachers
With practical guides and training workshops, enabling them to integrate climate, biodiversity, and Indigenous knowledge into their teaching.
Creates intercultural exchanges
Educational twinning and mobility programs between schools and Indigenous villages, promoting mutual learning.
Ensures intergenerational transmission
A mentorship network allows elders to share their knowledge with younger generations, ensuring the continuity of traditional wisdom.
Advocates for public policy change
Students and teachers are invited to develop and carry forward international advocacy to make climate education and Indigenous Peoples’ rights a top priority for decision-makers.
In this way, every classroom becomes a starting point for training the future Guardians of Mother Earth.
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Empowering indigenous peoples
While the international community acknowledges in speeches the fundamental role of Indigenous Peoples, actions struggle to follow. Too often, they remain excluded from decisions that affect their lands, their rights, and their future.
Our project aims to change this. Empowering Indigenous Peoples means supporting their right to transmit their knowledge, protect their territories, and have influence in political decision-making. All our cooperation efforts are co-constructed at their request, in close coordination with their representatives, and with full respect for their priorities and autonomy.
Preserving cultures, training leaders
Across villages, the project supports language practice, traditional crafts, rituals, and agroecology, while also supporting the learning of foreign languages, digital literacy, and law. Our project provides the equipment required for an education that is adapted, sustainable, and rooted in local realities.
Providing tools and documentation
Young people are trained to produce content (guides, videos, testimonies) that showcases their knowledge and advances their claims. These tools strengthen their capacity for expression and their agency.
Building educational bridges
Partnerships between European schools and Indigenous communities give rise to joint projects (reforestation, workshops, exchanges), nurturing solidarity and mutual learning.
Upholding the right to consultation
The right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is at the heart of the project. We support it concretely by training, informing, and disseminating the Declarations issued by major traditional Assemblies.
Amplifying Indigenous voices in global summits
Each screening of the film becomes a moment of advocacy. From COP15 in Montréal to COP30 in Belém, Indigenous representatives call decision-makers to account. In 2027, a global Declaration carried by 500 delegates from around one hundred Indigenous Peoples will strengthen a worldwide alliance for the defense of Indigenous rights and Mother Earth.
Uniting forces for Mother Earth
To protect the Amazon, its peoples, and all vital ecosystems, we must act together — from the smallest villages to the heart of international summits. The Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth project is connected to the Alliance of Guardians of Mother Nature and brings together a large, active, and globally connected community of solidarity, where everyone has a role to play.
An Impact Tour to amplify the Guardians’ voices
Since November 2024, a global tour has been visiting schools, universities, and major international events (COP16 in Cali, Climate Week NYC, the Free Land Camp in Brasília, among others). Each screening and discussion of the film becomes a space for dialogue, inspiration, and initiating concrete initiatives for the climate, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights.
A coalition to build change together
By launching amazoniafilm.org, the project is creating a truly collaborative platform. Students, teachers, citizens, NGOs, and companies will gradually find educational resources, action tools, and clear pathways for getting involved. They can also join the “Amazonia Coalition” to co-develop an international advocacy effort to be presented by a delegation at COP30 in Belém.
2027: A World Assembly to turn words into actions
In 2027, our international momentum will culminate in a historic World Assembly, bringing together 500 delegates from 100 Indigenous Peoples and 40 countries. Together, they will adopt a Global Declaration demanding climate justice, respect for Indigenous rights, and international recognition of the crime of ecocide.
Everyone is welcome to join this living alliance for Mother Earth: every action, every voice, every form of support matters. Because the future is being decided now, let’s unite to amplify solutions and defend those who protect life on Earth.
Fostering An Ecological Transition
The ecological transition will happen neither without justice nor without the Peoples who still protect the last great ecosystems. Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth proposes a new path: one that is anchored, inclusive, and co-constructed, attentive both to traditional knowledge and to contemporary solutions.
Connecting cultures and solutions, tackling eco-anxiety
The project fosters the emergence of sustainable models, developed hand in hand with Indigenous Peoples: agroforestry, permaculture, community water management, participatory reforestation… Practices rooted in the territories, shared with schools, NGOs, and local actors to inspire concrete alternatives.
But it is also about recreating a bond with the living world, especially among younger generations confronted with growing eco-anxiety. The project offers experiences of direct reconnection with nature: tree planting, visits to eco-farms, participatory projects in eco-sites or forest areas, sensory workshops inspired by Indigenous practices, talking circles on the relationship with the living world… Initiatives that restore meaning, grounding, and hope.
Toolkits to rethink economic dialogue
Two tools are being developed to transform how territories are approached:
Training change-makers
These tools are accompanied by awareness-raising sessions, in person or online, for companies engaged in CSR initiatives, as well as for educational and cultural institutions. They include film screenings, discussions with Indigenous representatives, and proposals for concrete actions.
Sharing experiences among communities
The project also organizes exchanges between Indigenous Peoples: those who have implemented innovative solutions share their experiences with others in difficulty, so that good practices circulate—whether in cultural transmission, food autonomy, or territorial governance.
Ensuring proposals are heard in decision-making spaces
Finally, all these dynamics feed into international advocacy for a just ecological transition. In 2027, the Great Assembly of Guardians will put forward concrete proposals from the field to transform international commitments into profound and lasting change.
