Bora girl mashing mishquipanga fruits to dye fiber

A Bora native girl from Brillo Nuevo mashes the fruits of mishquipanga plants so her artisan mother can dye chambira palm fiber a deep red. Photo by C. Plowden/Center for Amazon Community Ecol

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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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