This week Cool Earth turns ten. What a decade it’s been. Since the start, Cool Earth has partnered with communities in Northern Peru, Papua New Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, directly investing over £5.8 million in strengthening these communities and giving indigenous people a voice in their forest’s future. We’ve seen extraordinary things from the communities we work with and against the odds, too. Cool Earth’s partnerships have seen rainforest loss at an all-time low of 0.51% in comparison to the 28% rate of deforestation in the surrounding area.
When Anthropologist, Dilwyn Jenkins contacted Cool Earth ten years ago, with the news that the Asháninka community was on the brink of selling their rainforest after successive and lucrative offers from loggers, Cool Earth leapt at the opportunity to assist in whatever way we could.
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