LETTER FROM
THE CEO
The year 2025 was marked by an intensification of the crises affecting our territories. Climate change ceased to be a distant threat and became a daily reality; the rights of Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTI people continued to be undermined by institutional fragility; and ancestral territories remained under pressure from extractive interests, structural neglect, and development models disconnected from cultural and territorial realities. In this context, environmental injustice manifested itself most sharply in the bodies, knowledge systems, and livelihoods of those who have historically sustained life in their communities.
In response to these tensions, Women for Biodiversity Org assumed a clear and deliberate role in 2025: to act from the territory to transform structures, not merely to mitigate harm. Our work went beyond project implementation. We focused on strengthening community-based processes, Indigenous leadership—particularly women’s leadership—and local governance mechanisms that enable communities to assert their right to decide over land, energy, water, biodiversity, health, and care. We reaffirmed that without energy autonomy there can be no reproductive rights; without climate justice there can be no meaningful conservation; and without genuine community participation there is no sustainability.
Throughout the year, we consolidated an intervention model grounded in the articulation of ancestral knowledge and appropriate technologies, political advocacy rooted in community realities, and the creation of local institutions capable of sustaining processes beyond the lifespan of external funding. We accompanied territories that are now better equipped to defend life, document their realities, and engage with state institutions and other actors on more equitable terms.
We look to the future with the certainty that the challenges ahead will deepen, but also with the conviction that lasting solutions must continue to emerge from the territories themselves—through dignity, knowledge, and collective organization. Our commitment is to further strengthen an ecofeminist, Indigenous, and intersectional agenda that places environmental justice at the center of both policy and practice. The horizon guiding our work remains clear: living territories, empowered communities, and guaranteed rights, even in the face of an escalating climate crisis.
