Amazon Peru

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Project in the Amazon

Anyone who buys wood from South America from us is supporting the protection of the Peruvian rainforest in the Amazon. In this project, we help the indigenous population to obtain their property rights, which they use to defend themselves against displacement by illegal logging and agro-industry.

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The goal: strengthening indigenous rights

The expansion of industrial agriculture is putting the indigenous communities in the Peruvian rainforest under enormous pressure. As you have no ownership rights to your land, you are defenceless against displacement. The aim of this project is to obtain these ownership rights for 220 indigenous communities and thus protect an area of six million hectares of rainforest.

The place: Amazonas in Peru

The Loreto and Ucayali regions are the two largest Amazon regions in Peru and are traditionally occupied and protected by indigenous groups. This Amazon region – also known as Andean Amazonia – is considered a diversity hotspot in what is already the most biologically diverse area on earth.

Our partners: Rainforest Trust & CEDIA

The US-American NGO Rainforest Trust and the local Center for the Development of an Indigenous Amazon Organization (CEDIA) have been working together for 25 years and have already achieved enormous success in rainforest protection by empowering the indigenous population.