Protect Amazonian Biodiversity

As you have probably heard, the seed of the cacao tree is the source of chocolate. The cacao tree is a small rainforest understory tree and is closely related to other small understory trees of the Amazon. Theobroma speciosum is called cacahuillo in Madre de Dios and has these

Part of our diversified agroforestry project includes cultivating spaces for wonderful and awe-inspiring pollinators such as the stingless bee, the melipona.

To peel a Shimbillo bean in half, the seed-filled boat cautiously held in one hand, and to place a little white-fluff coated seed on one’s tongue, waiting for it to swell before nibbling on it is a slow pleasure reserved to those who live or have been in the Western Amazon. A faster

Look who showed up on our forest cam!
Happy we are protecting and building habitat in one of the most biodiverse regions on this planet!

Thank you all for planting trees with us.



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Hard to believe it was 9 Years ago when we had the honor of hosting a wonderful little crew for our workshop on sustainable habitats. Just before that famous December solstice of 2012. The trees planted that week are now quite huge.



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Aniba canelilla, known to locals as canelón (roughly, “wild cinnamon”) Used as a health tonic for longer than we can know, canelón is also a favored flavor supplement added to coca leaves to sweeten the chew. So it may come as a surprise that this revered therapeutic herb is also

The story goes like this: bananas are a sterile (asexual) hybrid of species from the genus Musa. Whether or not people were eating in any significant quantities the seedy pre-bananas (like the Musa velutina shown here), and whether or not people played a role in the hybridization