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The research seeks to collaborate to advance the debate on the intertwining between Ancestry, History, and Environmental Education. It analyzes the pedagogical experience developed by the authors in the project "Young Environmental Guardians from Riverside Communities", which takes place in the Brazilian Amazon. The project's purpose is to reinforce the youth's commitment to the Amazon and the riverside territories, reaffirming the principles of the defense of life, "buen vivir," and socio-environmental justice. The article narrates the project's meetings, their objective and subjective aspects, in conjunction with a critical view of the History of the Amazon. It is argued that the recognition of Ancestry can pedagogically contribute to reestablishing the links of collectivity towards a more equal society and healthy environment.

The research analyzed women's mobilizations in 2019 -- the first year of the current ultraconservative government in Brazil -- focusing on the peasant women and indigenous women's demonstrations. The text points that the further liberalization and deregulation of environmental protection coupled with anti-indigenous and anti-environmentalist rhetoric leads to the intensification of extractivism (agribusiness, mining, among others), which advances on communities' lands, water, soil and forests. Because they are directly impacted by the social and environmental damages, women became the main social force fighting against the commercialization of nature and also supporting the subsistence-oriented agriculture. Considering the current environmental collapse, it's argued that those struggles are urgent for the defense of life and, therefore, should be supported by critical environmental educators.