Indigenous Women in STEM Are in a Unique Position to Stop Climate Change

Dec 5, 2022 | Leticia Tituana
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In Kichwa, an indigenous language spoken in parts of Ecuador, Pachamama (“Mother Earth”) is a unique word that represents the harmonious bond between nature and the indigenous community. This living bond promises that people will protect the water, land, air, mountains and animals. In other words, the people will faithfully protect their homeland.

For years, the indigenous communities followed their own scientific methods to confront what they had already predicted, the climate crisis. They focused on nature-based observations to save their natural resources from environmental pollution.

This valuable information has been passed from generation to generation, thanks to those who maintain the harmonious bond between humans and nature—the women of the community.