Earth culture & Development

¿Where do we act?

The amazonian rainforest of South America is considered the Earth lungs by its oxygen contribution; it is the more important fresh water source of American Continent, lodging the greater biological diversity of the planet. The forest of Madre De Dios, the amazonian region in Southeastern of Peru, where the Amazonian Foundation for Reciprocity (FAR) is located and works, still maintains a good possibility to keep most of its natural and cultural potentials.

Nevertheless, since the foundation of the capital Puerto Maldonado in 1902, the population has immigrated to make extractive activities of its resources, transforming great extensions of Amazonian Rainforest into degraded land and contaminating the rivers with the residuals of gold mining (mercury) and hydrocarbons.

 

 

 

 

The effects of these environmental impacts did also affect the Amazonian indigenous populations, causing in addition a social rupture in the cultural traditions that is bringing their people to devastate their own natural resources in exchange of ridiculous prices to supply international markets of wood, taking them into a ‘circle of poverty’ very difficult to revert.

Because of these reasons, the projects directed to the conservation of biodiversity, to cultural rescue and revaluation, to promote the sustainable development, represent great challenges for all the people who are compromised with the Amazon.

It is important to be conscious of this actual situation, because it is from this reality which we are working as FAR in developing the projects in coordination with our alliances, to contribute to the solution of this regional problematic, in search of the environmental and human well-being in the Amazonía; and in the worldwide.