Ashaninka
The Ashaninka tribe live in the Peruvian rainforest which is experiencing devastatingly rapid deforestation, destroying some of the world's richest stores of forest carbon.
In collaboration with our local partners Ecotribal, the Ashaninka chiefs at Cutivireni offered their land for sponsorship through Cool Earth, allowing them to keep their forests in tact and continue to live sustainably from their own land. The success of this project has spread to surrounding areas and now the community of Parijaro will gain sponsorship for their forest through Cool Earth.
Cool Earth's project with the Ashaninka tribe at Cutivireni prevents loggers from entering the community's forests and the neighbouring Ashaninka Communal Reserve which form a buffer zone for Otishi National Park.
This Cool Earth project protects endemic species and ecosystems of high biological value. The local people use the cotton from the cotton plant to make their cushmas which are the robes they wear. Ashaninka forests are abound with wildlife, including high numbers of macaws, toucans, many humming birds, spectacled bears, several monkey species, tapir, anteaters and big cats. The jaguar, which preys upon the tapir has the strongest bite of all the big cats.The project area helps protect an international rainforest corridor protecting rare and diverse habitats ranging across Peru and Bolivia. Find out more about the rainforest habitat.
The Tapir has a specially adapted nose for gathering food and placing it in its mouth.
We recently visited Cool Earth funded Ashaninka schools in Peru with the Cool Earth Teaching Fellowship.
Help secure rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon with the Ashaninka tribe, supporting livelihoods in sustainable agro-forestry and bio-diversity management. Help keep carbon where it belongs!
PROJECT UPDATES
Community chocolate producers look for fairtrade status Febuary 2010
