Untamed Angling offers a first-class fishing experience in partnership with Kayapo communities along the wild and magnificent Xingu and Iriri Rivers. The experience is unique immersion in a pristine Amazon wilderness with the unconquered Indigenous people who protect it.
Threats
The Kayapo Indigenous territory exists within a lawless frontier region dominated by economies of illegal logging, goldmining, and land-grabbing for ranching. Every inch of the 2,200 km/1,375 mile border of Kayapo lands continues to be threatened by invasion of these predatory activities that utterly devastates forests, rivers, and indigenous culture.
Kayapo Resistance
As you fly across the Amazon, the result of the Kayapo conservation alliance is clear: an intact Amazon forest survives within a sea of deforestation. The fish you land, the birds and animals you glimpse, the trees that tower over you, the clear flowing wild river, and beautiful Kayapo culture would not be here today but for three reasons:
i) Kayapo Warrior Culture. Kayapo warriors managed almost single-handedly managed to wrest from the government exclusive rights over a traditional indigenous territory the size of Virginia, Iceland, or South Korea,
ii) Strategic Alliances. Kayapo strategy partnerships with conservation-oriented organizations such as the International Conservation Fund of Canada, and Untamed Angling.
iii) Kayapo Territorial Surveillance. The territorial surveillance program managed by the three Kayapo NGOs of the conservation alliance forms the frontline defense against invasion. The main component of the territorial surveillance program is border guard posts and associated patrols.
Kayapo lands immersed in a sea of deforestation