Lilia Isolina Java Tapayuri

Lilia Isolina Java Tapayuri (born 1984 or 1985) is a Kokama Colombian environmentalist and community leader. She advocates for the conservation and protection of river wildlife of , in the Amazon Trapeze, in order to defend the rainforest and its ecosystem, as well as to protect the culture and ways of life of indigenous peoples.

She is also dedicated to monitoring the population of native species as the regional coordinator of Puerto Nariño for the Omacha Foundation.

Environmental work Java was born in 1984 or 1985 in San Francisco community, close to Puerto Nariño in , one of the tributaries of the Amazon River, and in a Kokama community. Ever since she was a child, Java has been fascinated by river wildlife, and, encouraged by her father, she helped care for the pink dolphins, an animal central to the community's imagination, in a male-dominated environment. In fact, her grandfather was already responsible for cataloging and protecting these dolphins.

Despite the evangelization that the community experienced in the last century, the people retained part of their indigenous animistic beliefs, which is why the protection of river fauna has an important spiritual connotation for Java.

All this community work led to the designation of the Tarapoto Lakes wetlands complex as a Ramsar site. Lilia Java stated that "the designation of the Tarapoto lakes as a Ramsar site is an opportunity to strengthen, protect, and conserve our natural, cultural, and social resources".

In 2019, with Fundación Omacha and Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN), Lilia Java launched a reforestation campaign for the “pepeaderos” gallery forest that grow on the banks of rivers and wetlands whose fruits, known as “pepas,” serve as food for birds and whose trees are used to build homes and boats for local communities. The second phase of the project with Conservation International consists of research to continue this recovery and the conservation of fish and aquatic mammal species.

In June 2021, Java and her colleagues received support from Conservation International to train in sustainable fishing through the Green Amazon program.

Personal life She is married to Aldo Curico with whom have three children.