“This land is our great home, a paradise, where we can find ourselves as Siekopai people.” Today, on World Environment Day, we bring you a special video message from Andrea Payaguaje, a twelve-year old Indigenous activist from the Siekopai nation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. https://twitter.com/AFrontlines/status/1665764557611061249?utm_source=Amazon+Frontlines&utm_campaign=3bfbfbf717-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_Siekopai_jun_3_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df6926ddb5-3bfbfbf717-190039065 As Andrea says, “this territory is sacred for us”. Across the world, Indigenous communities are reminding us that forests and rivers are sacred spaces of life - they are sources of food, water, and spiritual connection with the natural world. Over the past century, the Siekopai were enslaved in their ancestral homelands by rapacious rubber tappers, then forcibly displaced by military conflict between Ecuador and Peru in the 1940s, and ultimately corralled by evange