Stories written by Rafael Acuña Coaquira

Ranchers Try to Drive Tsimané Indians Off Their Land

By Rafael Acuña Coaquira
“We can’t take any more abuse,” Carmelo Tayo, the head of this small Tsimané indigenous village, says sadly. The community has lived for decades on land in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle that outsiders are now trying to gain control of.

Ecotourism Helps Amazon Jungle Communities Survive

By Rafael Acuña Coaquira
The Tsimane Mosetene people in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region have found a tool to preserve their habitat and way of life: a community ecotourism project that won a United Nations-sponsored international award.