Amazon Forest Recovery Project In Peru

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Defending biodiversity in the Amazon

We reforest the Peruvian Amazon to protect the biodiversity of Earth’s lung, which is continually endangered by intensive agriculture and wildfires.

WHERE

Perù – Puerto Maldonado

MAIN THREATS

Illegal deforestation, monocultures and livestock farming.

TREES PLANTED

Ayahuasca, Cacao, Caoba, Palisangre, Palo Rosa, Palo Brasil, Shimbillo and 16 more

GOAL

Protect endangered species

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Peru

CONTEXT

Half of Peru is covered by the Amazon Forest

More than half of Peru is covered by trees and more than 330.000 people depend on the country’s forests for their livelihoods. Between 2001 and 2020, Peru lost more than 1.7 million hectares of Amazon Rainforest according to Global Forest Watch. The causes: expansion of agriculture, commercial mining, and road construction.

The so-called “slash and burn” practice fragments forest ecosystems and erodes their supply capacity. Approximately 1.100 square kilometers of Peruvian forests are cut down each year, about 80% of it illegally. This forest loss not only harms Peru’s trees and extraordinary wildlife; it is also responsible for nearly half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Protecting the ecosystems of these regions is a critical action that impacts the Earth’s lung.

Native species from the heart of the forest.

We go deep into the heart of the Amazon to recover native and endangered species and preserve the biodiversity of our planet’s green lung.

We work in Puerto Maldonado in the Tambopata National Reserve, one of the most important and vulnerable protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. The reserve is home to several indigenous communities and a huge variety of species. Here we work to restore the landscapes of the Peruvian Amazon, recovering endangered historic seeds and supporting the rights and autonomy of indigenous peoples.

We support those who thrive in the forest.

We support Peruvian indigenous communities living in close contact with the Amazon Rainforest. We restore landscapes, conserve historic seeds, and provide tangible support for the autonomy and wisdom of indigenous peoples.

The people of the Amazon have benefited from the forest for thousands of years, drawing on medicinal herbs, fruits, mushrooms, timber, and many other resources. This connection to the forest has enabled them to develop a unique and profound knowledge of their natural surroundings and to ground their culture on this very ancestral knowledge. Defending the Amazon Rainforest also means upholding a vision of the forest as a place rich in life, wisdom, and resources, that requires respect and care.

We defend the complexities of the forest.

In Peru we plant more than 20 native fruit, medicinal, and endangered species and we develop organic agriculture and sustainable land management.

The consequences of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon are enormous. The loss of forested areas puts hundreds of species of flora and fauna at risk and contributes to increased greenhouse gas emissions, worsening the problem of climate change on a global scale. The Amazon Rainforest is a focal area, and reforestation here is not just forest regeneration: it is also an opportunity for the conservation of an immense variety of vulnerable and endangered species.

"We must stop this race towards collapse. There can be no global climate security without protecting the Amazon".

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ex-trade unionist and politician from Brazil.

WHAT WE ALREADY DID

Trees planted

22 k

Species planted

20 +

Severely endangered species among planted

20%

Hectares reforested

Estimate of CO2 absorbed

1,2 kt

Start of the project

2020

If the Amazon burns, Earth slowly dies.

Reforestation in the Amazon Rainforest means acting on Earth’s green lung with both local and global impacts on flora, fauna, and the indigenous communities who thrive in the forest.

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