Since 2007 we have planted over 1,500,000 trees together with around 900 families, scattered across communities along a 500 mile corridor beneath the foothills of the Andes on the south western edge of the Amazon basin.
Our aim is to establish a community- based commercial forestry enterprise that will improve the livelihoods of subsistence farmers and reduce further deforestation along the most vulnerable part of the Amazon – the “agricultural frontier”.
However, commercial forestry is only part of a holistic land management plan, which is applied at individual farm level, at community level and across the whole region. Given an average of more than 60 acres per smallholding, the combined area under management is close to 60,000 acres.
