Let us all plant trees to help restore the Amazon Forest!!!

Your financial support will also have an important impact for the village and the surrounding villages.

Your contribution will:  

1. Provide support to the community who will plant seedlings for the health of their community, for our planet, and essentially, for all of us.

Using agroforestry techniques, members of the local community will care for the young trees for three years. They will first plant seeds in their own nursery. The seedlings will then be transported to the deforested area, where they will be transplanted and monitored for three years. Not only will the agroforestry techniques provide food to the community, thus increasing the food-security of the local indigenous peoples, but they will also conduct the project within the traditional worldview and practices of the local Indigenous Peoples. This will ensure that the project helps to both protect and regenerate the Amazon Rainforest.  

2. Reclaim the Amazon Rainforest. 

Reclaiming the Amazon Rainforest is an essential way that all of us can directly help STOP and REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE. It is one of the best available environmental actions for the Earth and all living beings. The United Nations has declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Eco-Restoration. Around 25% of the land on Earth is now in a degraded state. The restoration of degraded lands is essential to ending the climate crisis.     

3. Success with this project will create a prototype that can be easily replicated with other villages. 

We are aware that a newly created pilot project cannot be large enough to single-handedly reverse the enormous scale of environmental destruction. But one of the best ways to make such environmental restoration efforts successful is to create a prototype that can be easily replicated and multiplied in the future by many individuals and organizations. In this way the recovery effort can be increased by exponential growth and can do even more to counter the destructive forces of deforestation and extractive industries. We are organizing this pilot project with hopes of replicating it many times over in future years.

4. Enhance knowledge exchange among indigenous peoples.

Historically, indigenous peoples of the Amazon region do not have the habit of meeting with each other and exchanging knowledge. Just a few decades ago, the social and environmental issues they are all facing have pushed them closer, but due to the high costs and big distances these meetings are still rare, although crucial to strengthen their spiritual and political resistance. One of this project aims is to provide a visit from Ashaninka’s leaders and experts on agroforestry to the Puyanawa territory. The Ashaninka have a large experience on the implementation of agroforestry systems and have been a big inspiration for the Puyanawas. The Ashaninka will have the chance to see the work the Puyanawas have done and exchange experience.  

Who are we? 

Inochi is a U.S. nonprofit organization active locally (in California, Hawaii and Japan) and internationally (around the world) since 1993. We have recently been working with a trustworthy volunteer team of Inochi members in Brazil to address climate change while supporting local communities of Indigenous Peoples.  Our "Inochi—Brazil" team is associated with a Brazilian Buddhist magazine entitled Bodisatva and they are actively collaborating with the well-respected Amazon Reforest Alliance on this project.