The plantation of rubber trees generated a major conflict between indigenous people and migrants who came to exploit rubber at the end of the Second World War. Migrants were determined to conquer the territories and enslave indigenous people for the extraction of rubber. The indigenous who opposed the migrants were slaughtered and a high number of them disappeared or fled to urban areas.
In their fight to defend their territories, only a few Kuntanawa people survived by hiding in the woods. Those who surendered were forbidden to speak their own language or practice their customs and beliefs. Until now, the idea for the Kuntanawa people is to fight to defend their culture and territory; their community barely exists officially because the government thought they had been completely exterminated. Nowadays, a census of 370 Kuntanawa members has been taken.
The Kuntanawa Project offers to plant fruit and native trees right in the agricultural land owned by the members of the Kuntanawa community and in the areas deforested by migrants, forestry and farm operators, who have already illegally deforested areas belonging to the territory of the Kuntanawa.
The priority of this project is the assisted regeneration of spoiled areas, in the spirit of protecting biodiversity and the Kuntanawa culture, who heavily depend on their forest for their livelihood. It is therefore just as much as a reforestation project to revive the Kuntanawa culture by helping them to take root in their territories through forest conservation activities.
Eventually, the sustainable exploitation of wood is not a priority for the community, which focuses on developing ecotourism or organic agroforestry agricultural production activities.
Project manager : Pur Projet
The Kuntanawa Project offers to plant fruit and native trees right in the agricultural land owned by the members of the Kuntanawa community and in the areas deforested by migrants, forestry and farm operators, who have already illegally deforested areas belonging to the territory of the Kuntanawa.
The priority of this project is the assisted regeneration of spoiled areas, in the spirit of protecting biodiversity and the Kuntanawa culture, who heavily depend on their forest for their livelihood. It is therefore just as much as a reforestation project to revive the Kuntanawa culture by helping them to take root in their territories through forest conservation activities.
Eventually, the sustainable exploitation of wood is not a priority for the community, which focuses on developing ecotourism or organic agroforestry agricultural production activities.
The Kuntanawa Project offers to plant fruit and native trees right in the agricultural land owned by the members of the Kuntanawa community and in the areas deforested by migrants, forestry and farm operators, who have already illegally deforested areas belonging to the territory of the Kuntanawa.
The priority of this project is the assisted regeneration of spoiled areas, in the spirit of protecting biodiversity and the Kuntanawa culture, who heavily depend on their forest for their livelihood. It is therefore just as much as a reforestation project to revive the Kuntanawa culture by helping them to take root in their territories through forest conservation activities.
Eventually, the sustainable exploitation of wood is not a priority for the community, which focuses on developing ecotourism or organic agroforestry agricultural production activities.
Project manager : Pur Projet
Planting of 200,000 forest trees, fruit trees and native species (mahogany trees, tropical pines, Araca, Apuí, Ingazeira, paxiubinha, orange trees, lemon trees, mango trees, etc.)
The Kuntanawa people plant trees in collective gatherings and celebrations, marking their commitment to the conservation of their forest and their culture. The first 5,000 trees of the project were planted in June 2011during the Pano trunk festival that united all the peoples of the Panolinguistic Trunk (Kuntanawa, Yawanawa, Huni Kui, etc.).
1 year, 7 monthes and 10 days
It remains
31/12/2014
27/10/2011
