In Peru, Yine women show how defending the Amazon supports local livelihoods

Mongabay
Jun 18, 2025, 6:57 am91 pts
As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she collects clusters of murumuru seeds. These honeycomb-shaped structures fall from the Astrocaryum murumuru palms that reach heights of up to 10 meters (33 feet). Alvarado and her “sisters,”…

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