It is beautiful and enriching to learn from the cultures of different peoples, the wisdom of farmers, and the knowledge of those who dedicate their lives to understanding the importance of our living and diverse biodiversity. We are sons and daughters of popular wisdom; we believe in a just and sustainable planet, where all people coexist harmoniously with the environment and strive to ensure that it remains standing for future generations.
We drink from the wellspring of political initiatives that view Indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, artisanal fishermen, riverbank dwellers, and so many other traditional populations as citizens with rights. We want these groups to be very much alive and doing what they do best: defending our forests, our rivers, and our home, the ecosystems.
For 30 years, an organization has been working to make our collective dreams ever closer to becoming tangible. The Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN) dedicates its work to development with social equity and environmental balance. And we are all part of this: employees, beneficiaries, and partners.
We stand together in supporting small eco-social projects, assisting researchers in gathering socio-environmental data, and defending rights that protect biomes and their interconnected areas, especially the Cerrado, the Amazon, the Caatinga, and their peoples. ISPN is us, and we are proud to know that, in 1990, a seed was planted to blossom into days of struggle and achievements in favor of our socio-biodiversity.
Today, we want to continue planting respect for peoples, valuing our cultural richness, and fostering dialogue between science and popular wisdom. And the more plural these seeds are, the greater our certainty will be regarding the diversity of ideas we will have to contribute to the populations, society, and nature. It is time to plant the future together, and it comes from the hands covered in the struggle we have learned to follow alongside the communities, who harvest from the land the exact story we want to tell.
