Last week I went up to the school in the community of Santa Rita with Alexandra, Runatarpuna's project manager, and Welcome, our Global Citizen Year volunteer.
Fundación Runa did a community mapping project with Santa Rita to establish where the community boarders the Colonso Forest, a protected area of Amazon Rainforest. This map can help the community make decisions about how to use community land and how to protect the Colonso Forest. With the use of this map, we will work with the community to create buffer zones of agroforestry production by planting guayusa among their other crops. The guayusa will be a source of income to the farmers and hopefully deter them from entering the forest to cut down trees and hunt. You can read more about Fundación Runa's project to protect the Colonso Forest here.
We gave copies of the maps to the leaders of Santa Rita last month, but they requested that we make copies for the school as well, so that they may use it in their curriculum.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Aliana
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