about tohu
Tohu exists to amplify the voices of Indigenous communities around the world by interpreting, analysing, and utilizing data, insights, and research to drive positive change. We advocate for Indigenous communities by providing research and community backed solutions to industry leaders, bodies, and institutions, where the greatest change can begin.
In Amazônia we have supported local communities and Indigenous people to address, prepare, resist and challenge undergoing accelerated environmental degradation caused by monoculture expansion, cattle ranching, and infrastructure development, such as hydropower dams and mining. These are the main drivers of deforestation and conversion of other important native vegetation, such as mangroves.
We uphold data sovereignty, community consent, cultural protocols, and the rights to own, govern, and control data. We tell their stories, with their narratives, grounding analytics in the lived experience of place, culture, and land kinship.
our guiding principles
Relational Knowledge
Data are understood as expressions of relationship; analysis is an act of care, interpretation, and reciprocity.
Multiple Ways of Knowing
Indigenous, scientific, and experiential knowledges interact as distinct yet interconnected systems.
Ethical Grounding
Accountability is maintained to communities, ancestors, and lands, not only to institutional mandates.
Pattern Recognition
Tohu are read as signals of transformation — ecological, cultural, or institutional — rather than as isolated metrics.
Transformative Practice
The goal is not sustainability or resilience as maintenance logics, but regeneration as systemic renewal and rebalancing.
