THE NUKA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE DEFORESTATION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

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My current project is on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Colombia, Since 2022, I turn my work on the Nukak of the Colombian Amazon Rainforest, once considered the country’s last nomadic tribe.  After decades of violence, displacement, a family group returned to the Nukak-Makú Reservation, the most deforested Indigenous land in the country. In 2022, Jedeku and his family settled in their grandfather’s land and named it Wim Pena Cha’ana. Today, after two years of work, using their ancestral knowledge, they have restored more than 15 hectares of forest deforested for cattle ranching and the illicit production of coca crops located in the Nuka Reservation and Reserve. With the support of National Parks of Colombia, who is helping them in the logistic of the restoration.

 

Due to the succeed of Jedeku’s family restoration, National Parks is going to extend the program to another 500 hectares on the Nukak Reservation where  WimPena Cha’ana and fourth other Nukak groups that returned to their Reservation are living.

 

This year, sI was awarded with the Pulitzer Center grant for reporting to produce two articles with her photography on the Nukak. I published with Aljaazera, last Oct 3, “Own Our Territory: Colombian Last Nomadic Tribe Fighst’ to Return Home”. In December 2025, I published another article on the Depth of the restoration in El Espectador entitled: The Fight of A Nukak Family to restore the Amazon Rainforest. 

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