Conservation of Pantepui: between complex emergency and climate change

Abstract In this chapter, the relationships between the development models of progressive governments in Latin America during the last decade and the failure of natural resource management institutions in the Guiana Shield region are explored. The complex emergency and climate change are analyzed as new threats to Guiana mountains, as well as factors that have made conservation priorities invisible and underestimated the importance of Pantepui as the last globally important frontier of tropical areas remaining on the planet. We wonder, who is interested in Pantepui? We want to raise awareness of the importance of Pantepui’s heritage and to promote cross-border collaboration in order to develop research-action capacities, such as interculturality, the defense of nature, and the construction of peace, with the long-term support of donors and cooperators from the international community. The conservation of Pantepui will be sustainable as long as the fundamental role of the indigenous peoples and their rights are fully recognized.