Supporting local communities through Quality of Life Plans in Cordillera Azul

The Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru protects a vast and remote landscape of unique geological and biological features covering 1.6 million hectares of threatened forest. Surrounding the protected park, local people live in over 560 communities that rely on the environment for their survival, including more than 30 indigenous communities and even some uncontacted…

Forest hero: Genoveva, cacao farmer

Meet Genoveva Cueva Espinoza, a local cacao farmer working in the buffer zone of our Cordillera Azul National Park project in Peru. She comes from a town called Cachiyacu in the district of Pólvora and the province of Tocache, Peru. CIMA, the Peruvian NGO that implements our Cordillera Azul National Park project, supports local cacao…