Photo: Smallholder farmer, Hugo, showing one of his recently planted Shihuahuaco trees — a native timber. Behind, you can see the cocoa trees that are growing alongside. Each year, a staggering 160,000 hectares are cut down in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, often to make room for permanent agricultural land. That’s equivalent to 160,000 football fields […]
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We are over the moon to announce that Plant Your Future is the winner of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018 ‘Best Newcomer’ award! It means an additional £1000 added to the £11,747.50 we raised during the week long campaign in December — read more about our campaign in our Christmas Challenge post from earlier this […]
This April (2019) CEO of Rainforest Alliance, Han de Groot, wrote an article in the Scientific American. The article, Forests are a low tech but high impact way to fight climate change, makes the point that the best technology we need to fight the ever increasingly worrying effects of global warming isn’t a technology at all […]
Stop Press! Earlier this March, Jenny was interviewed by progressive UK grant funder, The Fore, to discuss Plant Your Future’s (PYF) work and the way in which a grant awarded by The Fore helped us overcome a critical hurdle in our work in the Peruvian Amazon. Why was the grant so critical? While waiting for […]
Hello! My name is Connie and I’m a Zoology graduate originally from Yorkshire in the UK. I am currently here in Peru, volunteering for Plant Your Future. I’m based in the Loreto region, where we will be recording how much carbon is stored in the trees on the farms. We will also be investigating the […]
Happy new year! We hope you all had a fantastic time with your loved ones over the Christmas break. At Plant Your Future, we wish to start 2019 with a huge thank you to all the supporters of our Big Give Christmas Challenge. At the end of last year, we set ourselves the ambitious target […]
Products sourced directly from the Rainforest are helping to protect it and the biodiversity that needs it to survive and thrive. Leading this growing ‘Rainforest to table’ movement is Canopy Bridge — a sourcing network bringing together businesses, producer associations and community groups who are buying and selling natural products. By helping create easy, direct […]
In 2018, we launched Charapita — a new ethically and sustainably-sourced hot chilli sauce brand. Made using the indigenous charapita chillies of the Amazon Rainforest, and preserved with native limes, our ingredients are grown by the farmers we are working with. Charapita chilli is the perfect short-term high-value crop that grows as part of our […]