Asháninka – Peru
Believe in the Asháninka to protect the Amazon.
The Asháninka are one of Peru’s largest Indigenous groups and call 60,000 acres of rainforest home.
Home to thousands of years of history, culture, and traditional knowledge, and Earth-cooling carbon too.
We partner with the Asháninka in Cutivireni, Camantavishi, Parijaro and Oviri in Peru’s Ene Valley to ensure this way of life can continue in spite of challenging external pressures.
Indigenous fire fighters
The Asháninka experience the impacts of Amazon wildfires first-hand. We collaborate with our Indigenous partners to train and equip community leaders against forest fires.
Watch how the Asháninka are monitoring their forest, through groundtruthing and satellite technology.
The Asháninka are true climate experts, protecting rainforest better than any one else.
Rainforest and the people that live there have always been exploited. From colonialists and missionaries to extractive industries searching for wood, gold and oil to corrupted governments and ill-fated conservation attempts. All causing harm to Indigenous peoples and extensive damage to some of the world’s most valuable carbon sinks.
It’s not deforestation or even the resulting climate breakdown that threatens the Asháninka most – it’s marginalisation. Cash doesn’t solve everything, but it provides choice. That’s why we raise and give money to some of the most marginalised communities on Earth, to spend it wherever it counts most.
PROJECTS
We’re collaborating with four Asháninka villages to create long-term choice beyond deforestation, through a series of community-led programmes.
Forest Monitoring
Backing traditional knowledge with satellite data arms the Asháninka with more insight to drive climate action.
Wildfire Prevention
We collaborate with Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE), an indigenous-led NGO, to fight wildfires before they start.
Cash Giving
No strings cash is given to ease pressure where it counts. No red tape, just money to buy what’s needed to live.
Cacao Farming
Families are growing ultra-sustainable cacao on abandoned forest gardens creating income and easing pressure that drives deforestation.
Coffee Production
Coffee is a vital cash crop for the Asháninka providing communities with a sustainable income.
Radical Solutions
Explore climate positive acts and cash-driven initiatives that benefit people and fight the climate crisis at the root.
