To start our campaign, we're working in partnership with Rainforest Foundation UK to make sure the 10,000-strong Ashaninka community of Peru’s Selva Central region have the skills, backing and support required to live in and protect the rainforest that has been their home for centuries.

Ensuring the Ashaninka communities are involved in developing and managing projects is crucial to long-term success. That’s why the Rainforest Foundation is working with a local partner, CARE (Centro Ashaninka di Rio Ene), an organisation run by and for the Ashaninka people themselves.

With our support:
• The Ashaninka community will prepare and put into action a plan for the protection of their communal reserve and the adjacent national park, which reflects their traditional way of life and culture.
• Community members will be trained to monitor logging taking place on their forest land. This will include training workshops in forest management and the establishment of natural boundaries to control logging in community territories.
•Technical and marketing support will help families set up small scale sustainable livelihoods in cocoa and coffee cultivation. By accessing markets families will have the money to access education and health care.