The project is operated on the ground by our technical partner Alianza Wichi

Nursery infrastructure is set up within Indigenous communities, restarting a virtuous circle for both ecosystem restoration and community income generation

Each nursery is built to produce between 5,000 and 10,000 trees in its first year

A team of community members manages all aspects of nursery development and production, including seed collection and storage, and installation of basic infrastructure such as protective fences, half-shade irrigation posts and substrate and fertiliser collection

A forestry engineer periodically supports and accompanies each project

The project follows two complementary pillars, co-designed with the communities. Pillar 1 reforests large, now-protected community forests damaged by logging, enriching degraded patches to restore the forest's capacity to feed and sustain the communities who depend on it. Pillar 2, intensive agroforestry, develops multi-strata systems on defined plots at higher productive intensity, combining native and non-native species such as mango, banana, avocado, citrus and moringa with vegetables, legumes and medicinal plants

Collaborating with 6 Indigenous communities, reaching 375 families. Every 230 trees funded supports a family of four for one month

Community nurseries and field crews create local green jobs across nursery work, planting, maintenance, monitoring and food production

Agroforestry increases access to diverse, nutritious foods, addressing malnutrition and health issues caused by forest loss

School-age and teenage cohorts learn seed collection, nursery work, food production, plot monitoring and digital skills

Women lead nurseries, seed banking and plant-dye/weaving value chains, strengthening income and decision-making

FPIC-based governance strengthens Indigenous rights, fair benefit-sharing and intergenerational knowledge transmission

Legal support is provided to help communities avoid deforestation, empowering Indigenous families to regain their traditional relationship with the land

Guaranteeing the transmission of ancestral knowledge, particularly around environmental knowledge and reforestation

The return of traditional medicine, as medicinal plants that had disappeared come back

Threatened native species help restore habitat connectivity and biodiversity

Planting along riverbanks helps water soak into the ground, reduces the amount of sediment washed into streams, and stabilises slopes in upstream areas

Return of varied fauna, including insects, soil micro-organisms and birds

The planting model prioritises an irregular native forest structure: multiple tree and shrub species of different ages, a complex vertical structure across strata, and a spatial distribution that emulates the natural patterns of the local ecosystem

Restored community forests are protected against logging, safeguarding these ecosystems long term