Arts for the Amazon raises funds for a range of urgent, high-impact, low-cost and efficient projects that protect and preserve the Amazon rainforest and in its people and regenerate deforested land.
AMAZON NOW
Amazon Now is developing a technology and media platform that combines smartphones, geolocalization and blockchain, to record and map the current, largely undocumented, intensification of agricultural deforestation, construction, fires, logging and land invasions that are degrading the Amazon forest at devastating speed. All the data is recorded using blockchain technology, making it almost impossible to corrupt, change or alter. Supporting the app and website, will be an organization dedicated to instrumentalizing the information to generate domestic and global media, thus prompting political and legal attention.
The Regenerative Agroforestry Impact Network, RAIN is dedicated to propagating the culture of agroforestry through the million km2 of deforested land in rural Brazil. Eco-agriculture and reforestation can rapidly regenerate soil and hydrological systems that have been destroyed by unsustainable land management, turning practically useless land into a highly abundant resource providing high agricultural yields and benefits for the environment. Converting one hectare of pasture or monoculture plantation to mixed forest or managed agroforestry plots removes around 150 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere and prevents soil erosion, rapidly regenerating land, rivers and ecosystems.
THe JAVARI PROJECT
The Javari Project supports the livelihood and wellbeing of the indigenous people of the Javari Valley through leadership, education, and vocational training programs. Situated on the border of Brazil and Peru, the remote Javari Valley is one of the largest indigenous territories in Brazil encompassing 85,444.82 km 2 (an area larger than Austria) and is thought to be home to the largest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. The Javari Project is founded by Céline Cousteau, a filmmaker activist and by evolved out of the making of her film Tribes on the Edge.