Providing incentives to protect forests by encouraging sustainable alternative incomes

Sustainable Brazil Nut Harvesting

• Alternative to logging, mining, unsustainable slash and burn agriculture.
• Can combine with eco-forestry, agroforestry & experiential eco-tourism
• Plan to start working with 50 families with the potential to work with 600 families to protect 600,000 ha of pristine Amazonian rainforest.
• Create a Brazil nut pilot center on 1700 ha of foundation land. (With potential to expand to 10,000 ha of alliance land.)
• Educate about the need to replant brazil-nut trees in the wild, which are no longer naturally reforested

Eco-Forestry School and model forest

• NOTA: BASAR NUESTRO TRABAJO EN REFORESTACION, RECUPERACION DE AMBIENTES DEGRADADOS Y ENRIQUECIMIENTO DE BOSQUES.
• We will manage a working model forest to demonstrate sustainable eco-forestry on 700 ha of foundation land.
• Conduct eco-forestry trainings to teach low impact extraction methods, ecology principles, eco-certification standards.
• Income from eco-forestry will go towards conservation, cultural and educational projects.

Improving existing eco-certification standards.

Agroforestry

• We will promote and teach agroforestry among local communities to provide higher, sustainable income on a smaller land area.
• Agroforestry and permaculture are important tools to rehabilitate deforested land and degraded farm land.
• Increased productivity and income in a smaller area of existing land to reduce pressure on nearby forest (ie. Inca Inchi, nuts, tree seedlings, medicinal plants…)
• Creating tree farms (mahogany and other species) on deforested land.

Small Scale Sustainable Fish Farming

• Small scale, land based fish farms are non-polluting, sustainable, and do not endanger river fish.
• Reduce the pressure on dwindling wild fish populations
• Provides alternative income and excellent food source for local families.

Small Scale Sustainable Wild animal Farming

• Small scale, sustainable Pilot Farming Centre.
• Reduce the pressure on over-hunted wild animal populations.
• Provide alternative income for local families.
• Provides an excellent food source and sub-products (skin, leader)
• Allow governmental control over wild animal use in local restaurants (important: they have to stop buying illegally hunted ones)

Experiential Eco-Tourism

• Promoting genuine rainforest and cultural experiences in local native communities.
• Provides alternative/ecological income, creates community incentive to protect their environment and strengthens their Amazonian identity.
• Creates global networks which brings other benefits and support.