Created in 1978, the Commissão Pro-Yanomami (CCPY), originally called Commission for Creation of the Yanomami Park, is a Brazilian NGO dedicated to “defending the territorial, cultural and civil rights of the Yanomami” as well as improving health care and education for the Yanomami. They promoted a movement to designate an area along the Brazil-Venezuela border as a Yanomami Indigenous Area, defending and preserving Yanomami culture.