Feature by Kaya Purchase
If the Amazon is the lungs of the world then these women are the defenders of the world, the ribcage that stands defiant, extended in protection around our source of life. Yet, the wider world fails to listen to the lessons these women can teach us. In a twist of tragic irony it is those who have been the most sustainable and lived in harmony with the Earth, who are impacted most noticeably by the immediate effects of the environmental crisis.