Forest Hero: Aurelia, Tambopata Cocoa Farmer
This is Aurelia llano Cruz. She is a cocoa farmer at our Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve project in Peru. As one of the 195 farmers who are part of the cocoa cooperative she has received training and materials for growing cocoa in agroforestry systems She has lived in the area, on the edge of the rainforest city Puerto…