The Department of Anthropology at Purdue University is pleased to welcome Dr. Jorge Solorzano-Filho. The Amazon rainforest represents over half of all tropical forest left and the most biodiverse one. It supports hundreds of Indigenous Peoples that still live according to their customary lifeways, among them the Kayapó peoples. Today the Kayapó Indigenous Territories form the single largest protected forest fragment in all Southeastern Amazon, making it a conservation example of how empowering a traditional community supported the successful protection of the ecosystem. Contributing to this achievement was the creation of the Pinkaiti Biological Reserve and Research Station by the A'Ukre village in the early 1990s. This station attracted biologists and ecologists that studied the reserve ecosystems' fauna and flora, but that also invited the Kayapo to engage with global environmental politics and the environmental crisis.