Echoes of the Pink Amazon Dolphin In Memory of Marjan Minnesma 27/05/2026 Article By: A Hummingbird Named Vida When Lourens de Groot, founder of SELVA–NL, sent word of Marjan Minnesma’s passing, the news travelled from the low skies and canals of the Netherlands toward the great rivers of the Amazon like one more current joining distant worlds through water, memory, and shared responsibility. For many years, Minnesma stood among the clearest and most influential environmental

ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 01/01/2026 As global leaders gather in Davos to confront the growing sense that existing economic models no longer explain the realities they produce, one conclusion is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid: development logics built on extraction are failing. In the Amazon, this failure is not abstract. Working for three decades at the headwaters of the Amazon River basin, SELVA – Vida Sin Fronteras has witnessed how extractive economics h