The Socio-environmental Working Group of the Amazon "Wataniba" was founded in 2005, by three professionals who had been working in different institutional spaces in the promotion and defense of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon.

Subsequently, in 2008, its structure was modified, creating a General Assembly that is currently the largest authority of the Institution. It is composed of 10 professionals of diverse specialties (anthropologists, doctors, educators, lawyers, biologists and sociologists) widely recognized for their work in the socio-environmental and indigenous area of ​​Venezuela, with the participation of a member from Brazil. Later, Wataniba began a process of transforming its original perspective, from being an "indigenist" organization to an organization that proposes an intervention with a "socio-environmental" perspective.

Wataniba promotes socio-environmentally sustainable territorial management processes, strengthening the technical and identity capacity of the peoples that inhabit the Amazon, designing jointly with Indigenous Peoples, public policies coherent with social and environmental rights widely recognized in Venezuelan legislation.