Environmental education is of vital importance. It helps people all across the globe to understand ongoing environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take crucial action to improve the environment, both locally to the individual and on a broader, cross-boundary level. The benefits of environmental education are profound and multi-faceted, resulting in a deeper understanding…
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…
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 PĆ³lvora and the province of Tocache, Peru. CIMA, the Peruvian NGO that implements our Cordillera Azul National Park project, supports local cacao…
What does honey and conservation have in common? Our project partner CIMA works with communities in the buffer zone of the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru, promoting the conservation of the forest and supporting the planning and implementation of community-driven sustainable development through Quality of Life Plans. (Read more about these plans here and…
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The Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve in Peru has reached two important milestones in 2019 for cacao processing and international exportation. These include the formal opening of its processing plant and its first export of cacao! However, before we go into this, hereās some background on why this is important. A key focus of our Tambopata project…
Guest blog by Jeffrey Chatellier and Devan Wardwell. Jeffrey and Devan work on the ground on our Sumatra Merang Peatland Project in Indonesia, for our implementing partner Forest Carbon. They help to manage project activities to combat local drivers of deforestation, including the risk of spreading fire from illegal land clearances. Read more about this…
A new species to science has been discovered in the Bahuaja Sonene National Park, in Madre de Dios, which is a specific region of the Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve project. The poisonous snake has been named the Bothrops Sonene, which is a tribute to the Heath River (āSoneneā in the native language Esaāeja). The snake was…
Forest hero: Paola, Agroforestry Meet Paola Coronado Bernet, she is a forest engineer who works as an agroforestry specialist and also helps to monitor project objectives and milestones at AIDER, our NGO implementing partner on the ground at the Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve project in Peru. Her role is to help train up the 400 cacao…
After 91 days, 175 flying hours and 23 countries, Peter Wilson and Robin Doten landed back safely in West Palm Beach on the 3rdĀ March 2019. During this 17,500 nm trip, they became the first helicopter to fly round trip around Latin America from West Palm Beach to Puerto Williams. The journey took them across the…