Save the Rainforest with auna
1% of your order will be donated to Rainforest Trust, so we can collaborate together in the survival of our rainforests and the wildlife they hold.
Rainforest Trust: Saving Indigenous Lands in the Amazon
50 hectares of rainforest die per minute. As a result, countless animal species, often threatened with extinction, lose their habitat. For over 30 years, the Rainforest Trust Organisation has been committed to the preservation of the rainforest by purchasing rainforest, among other things, to protect it from industrial deforestation.
auna hopes to raise funds for an urgent appeal: Saving Indigenous Lands in the Amazon. Rainforest Trust and Center for the Development of an Indigenous Amazon (CEDIA) plans to legally protect more than 200 native communities in more than 2 million hectares. The sooner this appeal is fulfilled, the more successful it will be to prevent mining and logging, and therefore, to preserve the ecosystem.
Once these communities have the rights to their lands and manage them according to suitable land use regulation plans, long-term protection of the rainforests and endangered animal species, such as the giant otter and the spider monkey, will be ensured.
Why our Amazonian rainforest needs our help
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, from which Peru holds 13% of the Amazonian rainforest, the second largest area of the Amazon. Due more than half of its surface being covered in trees, Peru is one of the most biodiverse countries. The scale of the fires occurring in South America in the past years is alarming and around 1 million hectares of forest have vanished in Peru.
The Amazon is one of the top degradation fronts because it is used to clean up the land for agricultural or breeding expansion. These harmful techniques may result in several decades for the forests to recover. Approximately 285,000 hectares of Peru's forests are deserted every year, more than 75% of them illegally, which fuels forest loss and threatens Peru's wildlife, but also accounts for nearly half of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
Over 330,000 people depend directly on the Peruvian forests for their sustainment, and endless depend on its ecosystem. Therefore, native communities need the legal titles to their territories in order to defend these lands and their wildlife.
Let's take a step in the right direction together!
auna will donate 1% of every purchase made from now on to Rainforest Trust to support saving indigenous lands in the Amazon. Thank you for your help!
- Over 10 million of species live in the Amazon.
- Deforestation impacts climate change and oxygen creation.
- Many native indigenous communities are affected by deforestation.
- 70% of plants that help cancer treatments exist only in tropical forests.
