Reforestation

Aliados works with indigenous-led farmer associations to restore degraded forests, conserving biodiversity, and improving livelihoods. Our reforestation strategy is to, firstly, increase socio-economic resilience to climate and market variation. Our tree selection considers a variety of native species that have utility for the community and economic value that can support food security and generate revenue. We employ a strategy of intercropping trees with short-term crops that respond to farmer’s immediate needs. Non-timber forest products support food security as well as diversifying revenues, when accompanied by training and business development support. Secondly, to support ecological resilience, the majority of the trees from our selection provide seeds and fruit that attract fauna, birds and insects, responding to less reliable seasonal fruit bearing from a changing climate, and expanding migration corridors.

What We’ve Accomplished So Far:

1. More than 30,000 seedlings from 20 different native species have been planted.

2. Increased habitat connectivity for large mammals and birds over a region of 42 hectares in the megadiverse Amazon basin. 

3. Participation from 90 different farming families.