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As part of our work in the New Guinea rainforest, we work with a small village in the remote Milne Bay Province named Sololo. In the last six months, we have seen some real positive moves in the rainforest…

A question we often get asked is: “Why is what you do better than other methods to protect rainforests? ”. The simple answer is, that it just makes sense. It’s fair to people and the “natural” world. Many of us…

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…

Imagine your only light at night was a battery operated torch or kerosene lamp. Now imagine you live in the middle of the New Guinea Rainforest, with a minimal source of light to work with. In Papua New Guinea (PNG)…

Indigenous Peoples fighting for their life Right now in Peru, a bill dubbed the ‘Genocide Bill’ has been proposed to reverse a law that for the past 17 years has guaranteed the life, integrity and territory of Indigenous peoples in…

The climate crisis not only affects the environment, it also has profound consequences for human rights. As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, the existing inequalities in accessing basic human rights for people around the world become…

Here are 5 emergencies faced by Indigenous communities due to the climate crisis Indigenous people and local communities are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis due to the fact that they live in climate-vulnerable areas and…