Restore the rainforest
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Why buy this Restore the rainforest gift?
- By providing a clear target to fundraise towards throughout the year, this eco-friendly and ethical gift is perfect for campaign groups, schools and parishes.
- This crucial charity gift can protect the way of life for indigenous and rural communities by providing them with vital training and legal support to defend their rights and homes.
- This gift can ensure that families are able to continue living in safety and peace on the land they call their home.
Case study: Protecting the Amazon rainforest
"We got our right to stay on the land by insisting!" Dona Lindalva, the Amazon
Dona Lindalva is a community leader in Porto Seguro Settlement, a protected area in the Amazon surrounded by cattle farms. She has served her community for years, helping them to secure the area as their legal home, but it hasn’t been easy. They spent two years in the area before the police first came and forced everyone to leave. Their homes and all of their belongings were destroyed.
Despite their homes being on public land, which they had the right to settle on, her community continued to be evicted every time they returned. Dona Lindalva worked with CAFOD-funded legal experts to prove their right to live there and prevent further evictions.
Now they have secured this right and farm the land in a sustainable way. They nurture the forest that survives and have begun reforesting and cultivating in harmony with nature areas that had already been deforested by the neighbouring cattle farms.
“My first dream was that we would be settled. We have that. We can plant, we have planted our trees. I am able to live off the land here. So that’s one dream we have achieved.”
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Why buy this Restore the rainforest gift?
- By providing a clear target to fundraise towards throughout the year, this eco-friendly and ethical gift is perfect for campaign groups, schools and parishes.
- This crucial charity gift can protect the way of life for indigenous and rural communities by providing them with vital training and legal support to defend their rights and homes.
- This gift can ensure that families are able to continue living in safety and peace on the land they call their home.
Case study: Protecting the Amazon rainforest
"We got our right to stay on the land by insisting!" Dona Lindalva, the Amazon
Dona Lindalva is a community leader in Porto Seguro Settlement, a protected area in the Amazon surrounded by cattle farms. She has served her community for years, helping them to secure the area as their legal home, but it hasn’t been easy. They spent two years in the area before the police first came and forced everyone to leave. Their homes and all of their belongings were destroyed.
Despite their homes being on public land, which they had the right to settle on, her community continued to be evicted every time they returned. Dona Lindalva worked with CAFOD-funded legal experts to prove their right to live there and prevent further evictions.
Now they have secured this right and farm the land in a sustainable way. They nurture the forest that survives and have begun reforesting and cultivating in harmony with nature areas that had already been deforested by the neighbouring cattle farms.
“My first dream was that we would be settled. We have that. We can plant, we have planted our trees. I am able to live off the land here. So that’s one dream we have achieved.”
