Marcos Urquía

Marcos Urquía
Marcos is the director of Alianza Arkana, an important indigenous-led grassroots organization dedicated to advocacy and social and cultural revitalization of Shipibo-Conibo communities in the Ucayali region of Peru. He is also the long experienced director of permaculture at the Santa Clara Shipibo-Conibo community and has a deep understanding of the technical challenges of permaculture in the Amazon as well as the social and environmental issues afflicting the region. To find more about Marcos and Santa Clara, please follow this link: http://www.enchantearth.com/santa-clara-shipibo-conibo-tours/

Presently Marcos is involved in launching of two very important projects with Alianza Arkana. The first is the RAO BANOBO , an educational initiative to teach urban and community cultivation of backyard medicinals for families without access to modern medicine.You can learn more and experience this project for yourself in our inaugural Amazon Medicine Field School to be launched this spring 2022.

The second innovation is the KENÉ book, a "colouring book" of Kené designs, the mysterious psychometry of the Shipibo-Conibo visionary artesans . The Kené project has gathered the contributions and profiles of the most locally respected artesans, their history and traditions, into one unique book. It can be purchased today as an E-book.

Learn more about the fundraiser and how to buy your copy!