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In Belém, Brazil, between November 10th and 21st, 2025, Health In Harmony will attend COP30, a crucial moment and platform for advancing Indigenous rights, climate justice, and planetary health. At this year’s climate conference, our delegates will participate in over a dozen events, focusing on building and sharing the evidence for community-designed, holistic solutions that regenerate ecosystems while improving local health and resilience.

Indigenous cinema is not just a form of artistic expression, but a powerful voice that amplifies struggles, strengthens identities, and contributes to political and social change. Community Thriving Narratives honors this truth – an approach that aims not to impose narratives, instead, it promotes communities telling their own stories on their own terms. Learn more about CTN and watch and share the films.

As world leaders prepare for COP30 in Brazil this November, Indigenous communities protecting the world's tropical rainforests too often have been telling their conservation stories through intermediaries, researchers, NGOs, and filmmakers from outside their communities. A groundbreaking new partnership is changing that dynamic, training forest guardians to become filmmakers and document their own realities in their own words.

Planetary health invites us to recognize something ancient and urgent: that the health of people, ecosystems, and the planet are deeply interdependent, yet any approach to planetary health that does not center women’s climate leadership and community-designed solutions will ultimately fall short and lack long-term durability. Read on to learn about how the health of the planet is not separate from the work of women who hold it together, often unseen and under-resourced. 

New research published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers demonstrates that Black Soldier Fly (BSF) frass – the organic waste produced by BSF larvae – can significantly boost maize production in southeastern Madagascar. The study, conducted by researchers from the Madagascar Biodiversity Center (MBC) and Health In Harmony (HIH), reveals that composted BSF frass increased maize yields by 38% compared to traditional cattle manure, offering a sustainable pathway to address food insecurity in the region.

Taking place on September 10, the Road to COP30 webinar brought together members of the HIH global team with key voices of leadership to discuss how rainforest communities are driving urgent climate action in the lead-up to COP30 and Climate Week NYC. The discussion highlighted advocacy strategies, community-led solutions, and the power of storytelling in shifting global climate agendas toward equity, regeneration, and source-based funding.

Last week, New York City once again became the global stage for climate action as leaders, activists, innovators, and businesses converged for Climate Week NYC 2025. The week highlighted both the scale of the crisis and the creativity of those determined to confront it – and most importantly, it reaffirmed the need to fund climate solutions at the source and the importance of Planetary Health at the center of the climate movement. Here’s what Health In Harmony led on and learned.

Thanks to a new $2.5 million grant from Rippleworks, Health In Harmony will expand to serve more than 65,700 people across 312 communities in critical biodiversity hotspots. This investment will enable HIH to significantly scale its groundbreaking community-led conservation model.

As we race toward COP30 and New York Climate Week, we ask you to join us for a critical Road to COP30 call. Rainforest communities need your support more than ever. Collectively, we can fund climate solutions at the source and prioritize equity over extractivism. Learn more and RSVP now.

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The International Primatological Society Conference is a major gathering of primatologists and conservationists from around the world, held every two years. For the conference to be held in Antananarivo, Madagascar, for the first time was more than symbolic. Madagascar is widely recognized as the highest global priority for primate conservation, with extraordinarily high levels of endemism and threat. 

Only when we treat the health of people and the planet as interconnected do we truly improve planetary health. On a series of recent health expeditions in 2025, vaccines were offered to patients from communities in the Brazilian Amazon as immunization against diseases and viruses, answering a local need for healthcare access as a planetary health solution.

Since January 2025, the Forest Guardian Program has been operating in the Ikongo District – an exciting next step in an initiative that shifts power, authority, and finance into the hands of rainforest guardians, recognizing their leadership in the struggle to protect biodiversity and fight climate change. In just one week in March, twenty community members underwent training to become Forest Guardians as part of the Ikongo Fagnimbogna project, launched with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and Malagasy NGO Ny Tanintsika.

On April 2, 2025, territory agents from the Xipaya Indigenous Land, together with members of the Kuruaya Indigenous Land and the Riozinho do Anfrísio Extractive Reserve, set out on an expedition driven by courage and resistance. The goal was to revitalize territory borders, identify new areas for sustainable use, and combat illegal activities that threaten the rainforest and its people.

The Xipaya Indigenous Territory is located in the municipality of Altamira, in an area rich in biodiversity and extremely important for the conservation of the Brazilian Amazon. Covering approximately 179,000 hectares, the Territory encompasses six villages and is an inspiring history of resistance. Kwazady Xipaya is one of the Indigenous leaders, chief of the Tukamã village, father of five, and a teacher, as is his wife Warawara. Watch a video to hear their perspectives on culture, well-being, and the forest.

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The biodiversity-rich Manombo Special Reserve plays a vital role in maintaining the delicate balance of the Earth’s biosphere. Yet, deforestation threats include climate change, logging, and hunting, as well as unexpected forest fires, particularly during the dry season. As part of its efforts to prevent and combat these forest fires, Health In Harmony recently took another step forward by organizing a specialized training course.

This week, we published our 2024 Impact Report, charting successes, growth, and learnings from our climate-critical work alongside communities in Earth’s most vital rainforests. In addition to hearing from these guardians, the 2024 Impact Report details the impact in numbers across Brazil, Panama, Indonesia, Madagascar, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Plus, key 2025 plans, press, and financials.