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We feel your pain: Reacting to the News of the Amazon Fires in Brazil
Along Brazil’s agricultural frontier, in the states of Pará and Amazonas, fires have been burning, one after another, for the past ten days. Although natural fires are somewhat expected in the dry season, these blazes are widely recognized as the result of a recent...
International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples
By Will DeBerry This Friday is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, and if you happen to be in New York you should absolutely check it out! The days marks the inaugural session of the Working Group on Indigenous Population within the United Nations...
UN Biodiversity Report
By Will DeBerry You may have heard about the UN’s sustainable development goals, which broadly categorize and rank the issues and challenges associated with sustainable development. Unfortunately, continuing negative environmental trends hinder progress and dampen...
How to Generate Strong Bonds for Conservation? Get to Know Communities
By RP Peru Team In our project for the conservation of the cloud forests of central Peru, we started a new process of getting to know the communities. During May and June, RP’s team in Peru made visits to four rural communities (Runatullo, Toldopampa, San Antonio and...
From The Andes To The Amazon
Social and Environmental Documentary Project By Alexander Santa Synopsis of the Documentary The lives of hundreds of native people from the Andes to the Amazon struggle to keep their history, cosmovision, and forest alive. San Antonio and Achuar (Wijint) in Peru, and...
World Rainforest Day 2019
By WillDeBerry It often seems like every day of the year has its own holiday: Penguin Awareness Day (January 20th), Spicy Guacamole Day (November 14th), Work Naked Day (February 1st), just to name a few. Still, it’s important to recognize which of these numerous...
The city of Austin, TX Proclaim June 22nd, 2019 as World Rainforest Day
Be it known thatWhereas,Tropical rainforests sustain our planet’s well-being—as the lungs of our planet, they’re an underappreciated powerhouse safeguarding humanity’s climate future, and their global footprint is shrinking from continued deforestation and...
Big Animals Make Big Impacts on Biodiversity
By Will DeBerry We all know that a plant or animal does not have to be large to make a huge impact within an ecosystem. The sea star, for example, is technically a keystone species. When they are removed from ecosystem mussels reproduce so quickly that it negatively...
New Team Members in Peru
We are pleased to introduce Rainforest Partnership’s new team members in Peru! With a myriad of talent across the board, our outstanding team is already working diligently to protect and regenerate tropical rainforests by developing sustainable initiatives in forest...