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Fish farming in Awajun communities has helped participants secure sustainable livelihoods in the Amazon rainforest. Thanks to the breeding of native species, such as paco and gamitana, families are guaranteed nutritional intake and income from the sale of surpluses that…
Over the past twenty years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 54 million hectares of rainforest due to deforestation, primarily caused by illegal logging, mining, monoculture farming, and forest fires, among other activities promoted by extractive industries. Deforestation not only…
Amazonian cacao is allowing Indigenous communities to dream even bigger. “This cacao project with our Awajún brothers and sisters began seven years ago. During the first six years, we worked on farm and crop management,…
Chocolate bars, cacao juice, hot chocolate and cacao-based jams are just some of the tasty cacao-based products that you can now find in the Awajún community of Urakuza, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. A new era for Awajún…
Take powerful climate action“Education and nutrition, that’s what we achieve in schools.”- Hisely Torres, Cool Earth technician in Peru 300 secondary school pupils Awajún communities within our Peru partnerships, aged between 12-17 from 1st to 5th grade are participating in…
The Awajún communities of Urakuza and Huaracayo steward over 18,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The schools of both communities actively engage in rainforest protection activities, strengthening the knowledge of children of all ages so that they can lead the…
Have you ever heard of the pijuayo? In Amazonas, Peru, this plant is about to become more abundant than ever to help 134 families in Awajún communities improve their nutrition and agricultural practices. The pijuayo is a native…
“I wanted to learn about fish farming to improve the quality of life in my community and help other project participants” Urakuza is an indigenous community located more than 5 hours by car from Bagua…
Indigenous peoples represent just over 6.2 % of the world’s population but they protect 80% of our planet’s biodiversity (Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) – United…
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