What do indigenous communities mean to us? - Ana Rosa de Lima | Decide for Impact show 465

2025-03-13

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You can find the notes, resources, and links for this conversation with Ana Rosa de Lima here https://decideforimpact.com/show465-what-do-indigenous-communities-mean-to-us-ana-rosa-de-lima/ Today, we are learning from Ana Rosa de Lima. Ana is the founder of Meli Bees Network gUG, a nonprofit driven by a new generation of climate activists from the Amazon. Her organization is dedicated to connecting Indigenous communities, researchers, and environmentally engaged groups around the world to foster impactful ...

You can find the notes, resources, and links for this conversation with Ana Rosa de Lima here https://decideforimpact.com/show465-what-do-indigenous-communities-mean-to-us-ana-rosa-de-lima/

Today, we are learning from Ana Rosa de Lima.

Ana is the founder of Meli Bees Network gUG, a nonprofit driven by a new generation of climate activists from the Amazon. Her organization is dedicated to connecting Indigenous communities, researchers, and environmentally engaged groups around the world to foster impactful climate action.

Ana is a part of the new generation of leaders from the Amazon area, who witnessed first-hand the rapid adverse changes to her childhood environment. She connects the regenerators deeply involved and concerned with her region, to develop activities involving meliponiculture, environmental education and research, to ensure thriving beekeeping practices in the Amazon. This is a long-term regenerative model for the region.

In this conversation with Ana Rosa de Lima, I learned:

00:00 Intro
03:15 Her story of growing up in Brazil.
04:50 Why it is good to have the COP 29 in Brazil.
06:25 The biggest challenge for locals and hosting COP in this area.
07:55 The story of the first workshop with the Guajajara people and the fires in the Aamzone in the background in the video.
10:00 How the study about mining brought her in contact with the indigenous communities.
12:20 Ana explains the reason why she started the materials engineering study.
14:05 The scholarship, Science without borders, made it possible for Ana to go abroad during her education.
16:00 How the online conversations and meetings reduce travel and keep the footprint low.
19:55 How the Meli bees network started and why it started in Germany.
27:25 The goal and result of the crowdfunding.
28:25 The goal was always bigger than just the bees. The bee as a metaphor for the work they do.
31:20 The Meli Bees network stretches beyond Brazil.
33:40 How the health of these communities is negatively influenced by the industrialized food.
36:05 The effect of mining resources on indigenous communities, that we in the Western world don’t see.
40:20 The impact of indigenous people on the revolution and democracy in the 1700s.
41:55 We don’t need to be afraid of new ideas coming from other countries and cultures.
46:30 The people who wrote the history win, mostly white men. That is why we don’t learn much about women and black people in history or indigenous history.
49:35 The wish of the Meli bees community to learn more about the indigenous history.
50:20 The funding of the network and the projects of the non-profit organisation.
51:55 Three events in Germany that you are invited to: 13-15 March 2025, Bonn, Dortmund, and Essen.