A gold mining boom is threatening to destroy one of the oldest
and largest remaining stretches of intact Amazon rainforest,
threatening the home and livelihoods of the Wapichan peoples of
Guyana.
Together with Rainforest Trust, we can save 2.2 million
acres of it – helping these forest guardians secure their
land titles and create protected areas to stop new mining,
logging, and extractive projects for good.
This is truly one of the last wild places on Earth, and one of
our greatest assets for sustaining biodiversity and combating
climate change. With all of us coming together, we can keep it
permanently secure for nature – and carry on campaigning to
protect vital forests everywhere.
Can you help save this forest home?
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The Wapichan peoples have been the guardians of these forests for
generations. For decades they have worked with local organisations
in Guyana to demarcate their territories, develop maps, and collect
biodiversity data for this area, even continuously identifying new
species!
But an increased demand for gold worldwide is driving the
relentless spread of new gold mines. And without legal protection,
these forests where Indigenous communities like the Wapichan peoples
have always lived are most at risk of exploitation.
Now we can help them secure legal recognition for their
ancestral lands and protect 2.2 million acres of this remote
wilderness forever. Then continue campaigning to protect the
natural world everywhere from corporate exploitation.
Saving this much pristine rainforest would be a game changer
for the Amazon and the Indigenous communities who live there – can
you help?
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