The Amazon Blog

We honour the life, beauty and strength of Mukutsawa Shanti Ashanga and give thanks for how our lives were profoundly touched by hers. Mukutsawa left her body on 8th March 2025 in the tender company...

As dusk fell, Marco got up suddenly and said he had to go and check on Fabiola. We assumed he was talking about a child, or maybe a grandmother, but he explained that Fabiola was...

We have just returned from our Dancing with the Heart of the World Amazon journey. As always, it's so good to be home again and to see those very first signs of the beginnings of spring....

These Amazon Blogs (#1 - #13) are arranged as a story in chronological order. They were written in 2023. We are in that quiet pause after Christmas and before New Year, we went slowly enough...

We walked into the airport and looked at each other with some alarm. We both had the same feeling that the floor was moving and we’d both come to the same conclusion that there was...

As the tiny plane takes off from the airstrip and soars over the forest, leaving behind the last roads and pipeline, tears spring from my eyes, and there is, simultaneously, a feeling of entering the...

Manari greets us. He talks quietly, gently, slowly and when he speaks I find myself listening in a new way. It's as if he is transmitting on another wavelength which I've unconsciously longed for but...

We were invited to a cultural sharing. Wonderfully unexpectedly, each dance or song they shared with us seemed designed to reduce everyone to hysterical laughter. At one point our whole group were asked to become...

I love what Phil Stutz says (in the film Stutz) about seeing each next thing we do, however apparently grand or mundane, as the next pearl on a string of pearls. He suggests that we give equal...

In Sharamentsa we get out of the plane into dazzling sun, the earth under our feet damp and hot. The huge river Pastaza, a sinuous powerful gleaming presence right there. We are in a completely...

Some years ago we had a deep meeting with Agustin Tentets in Sharamentsa. He spoke on camera of the powerful will and total determination of his people to protect the forest for the sake of...

As I concertina through the languages, the unknown dramatic curves of Achuar and its new acoustic shapes tumble me around in a wide sea of incomprehension. Spanish, half understood, gives me some ground, and then...