News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The Rios Online project is a citizen science initiative created to establish a relationship between local residents and academics in the Amazon. This relationship creates a synergy that helps both actors learn to be resilient in the face of the real-life scenario of extreme hydroclimatic events, such as the one that occurred in 2023. A […]

  Rios On Line: a project carried out by and for the people of the Amazon     During IFGR’s journey to Brazil in April 2023, Sophie Gardette and Clémence Aubert met Naziano Filizola, a teacher-researcher at the Federal University of the Amazonas and coordinator of Rios On Line, a community project that fired their enthusiasm. Between […]

A major decision for the rights of nature was taken. On 5 April, the Supreme Court of Columbia deliberated in favour of a group of 25 children and adolescents. Supported by the association Dejusticia, they took out a lawsuit against the Columbian government, accusing it of failing to protect their rights to life and a […]