Bora native artisan and son weaving chambira belts

Bora native artisan from Brillo Nuevo and son weaving chambira palm fiber belts in project with Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Photo by Campbell Plowden/Center for Amazon Community Ecology

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Grow Amazon artisan income & Peru rainforest trees

Peru Environment

This project will help build sustainable livelihoods and conserve rainforests with six Bora and other native communities in the Peruvian Amazon by promoting planting, sustainable harvest and sale of value-added non-timber forest products. It will empower over 100 native artisans and woodsmen to create and market innovative fair-trade handicrafts and fragrant essential oils as alternatives to economic activities that degrade forests. Craft sales will also support community health and education.

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