Impact
Explore our holistic approach to planetary health
More Money,
More Forests
Thriving
Communities
Protecting
Biodiversity
The impact is
climate stability
Measuring Impact
Community Thriving Narratives is a platform to amplify Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afrodescendant Peoples’ citizen journalism.
This process, owned by and led by communities, represents a move away from narrow, top-down evaluation approaches and facilitates a knowledge transfer of the Indigenous science, cultural, and spiritual practice of living in balance with nature to a global audience.
Audio: In Madagascar, where we use bioacoustic monitoring to monitor wildlife health, 89% of the species detected are endemic, underscoring the region’s astounding biodiversity. This audio recording is a Malagasy coucal (Centropus toulou) and a long-billed bernieria (Bernieria madagascariensis) in the Manombo rainforest.
Camera footage: We collaborate with our partners in Indonesia, Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) and Gunung Palung National Park (GPNP) to monitor wildlife through cameras. The camera footage here is of a Burung Enggang in Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia.
We work with research partners to use sound and video to monitor wildlife and therefore the health of the rainforest's biodiversity over time.
Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage 500 million hectares of tropical rainforest, protecting 60 billion metric tonnes of solid carbon.
If investments in rainforest communities reduce deforestation by even 10%, then every dollar invested returns up to $368 in carbon emissions avoided.
For example, investing just $100,000 in solutions developed by the Parakanã people of the Apyterewa Indigenous Lands in Brazil (pictured) is expected to prevent $36.8 million of carbon emissions.
A Global Approach
We work with rainforest communities in the Amazon, Andes, and Congo Basins, as well as Indonesia. Why basins? Rainforest basins collect and release rainwater slowly, preventing floods, ensuring a steady water supply and healthy soil, reducing erosion, and supporting vital biodiversity and local communities.
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Emberá Purú
Alto Playón
Arimae
– Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land
– RESEX Rio Iriri
– RESEX Rio Xingu
– RESEX Riozinho do Anfrísio
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We’ve been published!
Read a Peer reviewed study by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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