Land is livelihood. Access is critical.

The Indigenous people of manage 50% of the world’s forests.

They have the legal right to 10% of them.

Why does this matter?

Without the natural Indigenous stewards of these lands having legal rights to them, governments can sell off land to polluting industries or developers. All of humanity needs trees in those jungles standing in order to mitigate climate change. Our lives depend on it.

This project will fund the purchase of a critical ecosystem, protecting forest in the Amazon Basin from development and sale or lease to industry.

The Impact

Our Indigenous partners in the Amazon will use the land purchased for agriculture, growing not only food but also food ingredients used in the tribes’ chocolate and tea business. They will cultivate added supplies of guayusa tea and cacao and grow their already successful business.

Climate change has left Indigenous populations hungry because their food sources are threatened. This land purchase will provide more food for the Amazon’s inhabitants, many of whom are living in poverty, and strengthen them to work on climate and to fight for their lives that are threatened by industry and climate change.

Other acreage will be conserved, protecting one of the most biodiverse places on earth. The trees and the soil in the Amazon are an enormous carbon sink that regulates regional and global climate patterns. Given the massive impact the Amazon Jungle has on climate, all of the earth’s inhabitants need the Indigenous people of the Amazon to be well and fighting for our collective survival.

Project Phases

  1. Land purchase

  2. Evaluate terrain and need for restoration

  3. Determine number of food and tea plants, number of cacao trees

  4. Identify land managers, determine training level needed given experience and land use purpose

  5. Plant food, tea, cacao

  6. Impact report

Humanity needs to listen to the wisdom of Indigenous tribes who live in balance with nature and who have an understanding of the risks of not doing so if we are to continue to inhabit planet Earth.

Conservation of forest and critical biodiversity, an increase in the grantee’s tea and chocolate business with increased supply, the preservation of species, and empowerment of these tribes to further establish their presence in the global community are all benefits from the success of this project.

Giving the legal rights to this land to its natural stewards, the tribes of the Amazon Basin, is vital. It is vital to the health of Indigenous people, as well as the health of the planet.