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Awajún

Believe in the Awajún to protect their home, the Amazon.

We work with the Awajún across 16,000 hectares of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

The Awajún are people that protect nature, not exploit it.

Living along the banks of the Marañon river, they are the second-largest indigenous group in the Amazon (after the Asháninka), their mutual coexistence with rainforest is their way of life.

We partner with two communities to help continue this balance; to keep three million tonnes of earth-cooling carbon right where it is.

The Awajún have always faced threats and always fought back.

We’re talking gold, oil, timber, mining and monoculture plantations. The banks of the Amazon near Urakuza and Huaracayo, have rarely been seen as homes but instead as resources. The real threat faced by people that live here, even beyond the climate crisis, is the threat of greed and the resulting climate breakdown.

The Awajún need choices.

Choice (by which we mean, donations) allow new livelihoods, sustainable food production and rainforest insights to inform climate action. All this arms the Awajún people with what they need to continue protecting their homes, their culture, traditions, history which also means, carbon stored in the rainforest.

Live Projects

These projects funded by your cash and led by the Awajún are protecting rainforest right now.

Cash Giving

Giving no-strings cash is a simple, ethical way to create choice. This cash is spent however the Awajún see fit. Actions that support the protection of rainforest.

Cash Giving

Giving no-strings cash is a simple, ethical way to create choice. This cash is spent however the Awajún see fit. Actions that support the protection of rainforest.

Fish Farming

Fish farms are a reliable way to secure both protein and income, decreasing dependence in the process.

Cacao Farming

On abandoned forest gardens (small agricultural plots) ultra-sustainable Cacao production is underway by over 200 families. This creates income relieving financial pressure that can lead to deforestation.

Forest Monitoring

The Awajún know their rainforest. Backing this traditional and on-the-ground knowledge with satellite data gives even further insight to drive climate action.

Radical Solutions

Explore climate positive acts and cash-driven initiatives that benefit people and fight the climate crisis at the root.

Radical Solutions