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Deforestation is changing, and conservation needs to adapt, quickly. Clear cutting has been replaced by small scale degradation. Bulldozers have been replaced by machetes. In the Amazon, illegal loggers take out the most valuable trees and decimate the ecosystem. In…
Our partner communities in Lubutu face impossible choices. They are determined to keep their most precious resource intact. But they also need to feed their families and develop income streams.
Rainforests don’t really have soil. They have compost heaps. That’s because every organism works at such a metabolic rate that if a plant isn’t growing, it is being broken down by fungi to feed another plant. If you dig…
Humans have lived in the Amazon rainforest much longer than previously thought. Stonehenge-like structures, 2,000 years old, have been discovered in Acre state in the western Brazilian Amazon. Swansea University’s Dr Neil Loader and Emeritus Prof. Alayne Street-Perrott are…
Diarrhoea and malnutrition are the two biggest killers of young children in Cool Earth’s partnerships – this is where the The Asháninka health promoters come in. Health Promoters Mothers have worked with Cool Earth to set up a…
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. A day that fills most of us rational beings with dread as soon as February comes round. Saying that we have a Love Story worthy of making even the most stony-hearted among us…
Humans have been relying on the rainforest far longer than thought. Rainforests are incredible places: diverse, chaotic and full of more plants and animals than any other environment on earth. But for a long time, scientists have argued that…
Meet Noemi, the shaman in our Asháninka Project Each month, we’ll be introducing you to the incredible people behind our projects. The people who, without your support, would have lost their homes to the loggers. This February, meet Noemi…
Dilwyn Jenkins Obituary 1957-2014 It is with huge sadness that we announce the death of Dilwyn Jenkins. He was an extraordinary Project Manager for the Peru programme and the foundation of so much that Cool Earth has achieved. Dilwyn passed…
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