Lunch with like-minded individuals is always enjoyable, especially
when people gather for a good meal that supports a great cause.
In November, The Pachamama Alliance hosts a luncheon in honor
of rainforest preservation in the Festival Pavilion.
In order to help retain rainforests, The Pachamama Alliance
wisely supports the indigenous people who live in or near
vulnerable rainforest habitat. These tribes and groups are
natural rainforest guardians because they depend on renewable
resources found under the tree canopies.
Pachamama
has a strong partnership with the Achuar people who live in
the Amazon River basin of southeastern Ecuador. Close to 3,500
Achuar occupy nearly two million acres of tropical rainforest
in a biologically diverse region with no roads and few visitors.
So far, lack of contact with the outside world has helped
keep the area safe from mining, logging, and other disturbances.
The Pachamama Alliance works with the Achuar to maintain the
pristine state of their territory. The two groups have developed
a long-term master plan for the area and are strengthening
the Achuar’s governing federation. Pachamama has helped
the Achuar update traditional hand-drawn maps of their lands
with new mapping technologies. The Alliance has also given
the Achuar radio equipment to improve communication and education
within the 50 isolated Achuar villages scattered across the
rainforest.
Now that the Achuar can broadcast news and information throughout
their communities, they are developing a standardized written
language and health-care programs integrated with traditional
use of shamans and medicinal plants. Pachamama and the Achuar
are also finding new ways to raise money without harming the
environment, such as eco-tourism at the Kapawi Ecological
Reserve.
To find out more about The Pachamama Alliance and rainforest
preservation, consider setting a lunch date for November
16. See the calendar and www.pachamama.org
for additional details.
Pachamama
has a strong partnership with the Achuar people who live in
the Amazon River basin of southeastern Ecuador. Close to 3,500
Achuar occupy nearly two million acres of tropical rainforest
in a biologically diverse region with no roads and few visitors.
So far, lack of contact with the outside world has helped
keep the area safe from mining, logging, and other disturbances.
