Evaristo Nugkuag
Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan (* 1950) is a Peruvian human rights activist and environmentalist.
Evaristo Nugkuag is a Aguaruna Indians and studied medicine in Lima. For many years he organized resistance to the destruction of habitats of indigenous peoples at the local, national and international level.
In 1977 he co-founded the Consejo Aguaruna y Huambisa ( CAH ), which represents 45,000 residents from 140 communities in the Amazon region and is committed to alternative forms of land protection, health, education and human development and one of the most influential organizations of the indigenous peoples of South America been.
Nugkuag was founded in 1980, founding president of AIDESEP ( Indigenous Development Association in the Peruvian rain forest ), in which in the Peruvian rainforest living Indigenous merged at the national level.
A mitorganisierter of AIDESEP congress of representatives of indigenous peoples from Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador led in 1984 to the founding of the COICA ( Coordinadora de las Organizaciones indigenous de la Cuenca Amazónica ), an umbrella organization of the national Indian organizations from the nine countries bordering the Amazon basin. The objectives of the COICA are the conservation of tropical rainforests and securing the land rights of indigenous peoples.
Evaristo Nugkuag from 1992 to 1995 Chairman of the Climate Alliance.