IT Tirecatinga launched a new tool to the indigenous in the response to climate change

Helena Corezomaé/OPAN

The calendar of the ecological and cultural up-to-date on the Indian Land, IT Tirecatinga will be released tomorrow (3) a) in the Village of Blue Mountain range, located in the municipality of Sapezal, Mato Grosso. The new tool, developed by the Association of Thutalinãnsu, in partnership with the leaders, and the youth, and is a direct response to the changes in climate that have changed the way of life, and the predictability of the nature of the area.

In Tirecatinga, the signs of confusion, the climate is indisputable: the song of the bird macaoã, which, before it was announced, the rain, the sounds, in August, the rain if you want to achieve; a branch of a cassava planted in September, which is traditionally the start of the cycle, the kitchen is on the ground, and died. The emergency of the climate, before it’s far away, now it is manifest in the day-to-day, of the people.
The calendar is a tool to adapt and fight to

You need to update to the traditional calendar was born out of a workshop on climate justice with young people, waking up to the urgency to act on the changes. The new calendar is not only reflected in the changes, but there are also proposals for coping with and adapting to it.

‘It’s a way for us not to lose ourselves in the face of so much change,’ he explains Cleide Availability, the president of the Thutalinãnsu. ‘When you understand, our old calendar, and what’s going on now, you have a greater understanding of, and we were able to talk about how we’re going to face. The importance of the update is to look at the weather and see how it was before, and that is not changing. With the current schedule, we have one more tool in the fight to improve the lives of the community and to stand up for our rights.”

While the Availability, as well as leadership of the territory, and emphasized the gravity of the situation and said, “Before tacava a fire in August for the plant every September. Today, we put a fire in December for a plant in europe. The time has changed. Your life has changed. The weather is changing. Who changed it? We are not of us.”

Collective construction, and a heritage for the future

The upgrade process involving representatives of 11 of the villages, and took place in two stages, with the final validation of the content is currently being held in February, in the year 2025, in the Village of Blue Mountain range. All the information, and the ancient knowledge about the weather, the crops and the services that, when combined with the observation of the changes of the current has been turned into a book , and an interactive calendarwith the illustrations were made by the participants of the workshop.

Suyani Availability, and the young of the community, and seeing the design in a way that safeguards: “I can tell you that when I was a child, he thought that climate change is going to happen in 50 or 60 years old, but it is happening now. I follow in my day-to-day, this time on the territory of the calendar, it comes to make us stronger”.

The proposed amendments contained in the materials are concrete, such as the construction of houses that are more resistant to withstand the storms, the intense, and the mapping of areas that are free of chemical pesticides for the collection of the safe for the plants, since the impacts may add to, change the weather, and have a direct effect on the quality of life of the population.

To launch this Friday, celebrating the collective efforts and the resilience of the people of the Tirecatinga that will transform their ancient knowledge into a tool for land management and environmental issues.

‘Our presence here is a guide, across the land, we have our own strength. What we do today is for the future,’ he concludes Cleide Availability.