cool earth annual report | 2013 - 2014

COOL EARTH ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14

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“THE FOREST IS LIFE FOR US”

Macario López, Parijaro village, Ashaninka Project

JUST LIKE THE BEST PARTIES, COOL EARTH IS ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE. We can tell you about tree-frogs and toucans until we’re as blue in the face as a snub-nosed monkey - but the only thing that will keep them safe is people. People who have lived in the rainforest all of their life and depend upon it for everything. People who now find the bulldozers and chainsaws have arrived with one-off offers for their mahogany and rosewood trees. People who know the only thing that keeps their villages intact and their lives safe is the forest. This year we have had the privilege of working with 48 new families from as far afield as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Papua New Guinea. After the Amazon, these are the two most important intact rainforests and they are the best chance we have of keeping these biospheres safe. Welcoming these new partners into the Cool Earth family has been the highlight of the year. But whether we’re offering a lifeline in Lubutu or Milne Bay, the Cool Earth model is a constant; providing a helping hand to villages desperate to keep their forest standing. We’re still the only NGO that does this and as a result the queue of communities who want to work with us is longer then ever; 81 at the last count. It’s a nice problem to have and thanks to your support we are trying to work with every single one. But it’s also a reminder that sustained local resistance to logging is the best challenge to deforestation and the tragedies that follow.

Matthew OwenDirector, Cool Earth


PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS

All of our projects work with indigenous communities to protect rainforest on the frontline of deforestation. Each project gives our partner villages the resources they need to keep their forest intact.

Our project work has three keys areas

FOREST PROTECTION

INCOME GENERATION

PARTNER SUPPORT

2013 FACTS

386,000ACRES SAVED

4 MILLION ACRES

OF FOREST SHIELDED

92,640,000TREES KEPT STANDING

35,410LOCAL PEOPLE SUPPORTED

113VILLAGE

PARTNERS

100,360,000TONNES OF CO2 LOCKED IN

29,000,000,000LITRES OF WATER PRODUCED ANNUALLY

Project Achievements


FOREST PROTECTION

Forest Protection


MAPPED 600,000 ACRES OF COMMUNITY FOREST in our Lubutu Project in DR Congo by training 45 people in GPS mapping.

BEGUN CONSULTATION WITH THREE VILLAGES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA to save 140,000 acres of forest from palm oil conversion.

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FULLY-FUNDED OUR AWACACHI PROJECT in Ecuador, securing the long-term protection of 55,000 acres forest.

This year we expanded our projects to bring 386,000 acres of at-risk rainforest under community protection. This is forming a shield to protect four million acres of neighbouring forest from destruction. From launching our Awajún Project in northern Peru, to creating a forest corridor to link more than 900,000 acres of protected rainforest in Ecuador, 2013 has been Cool Earth’s most successful year so far for rainforest protection. WE’VE ALSO;

Forest Protection

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“THE WOODS ARE OUR RESOURCES. THEY BELONG TO ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. IT IS THE LEGACY

WE LEAVE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS. IT WILL ALWAYS BE NEEDED FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO

LIVE FROM THE FOREST.”

Cesar Bustamante, Cutivireni village, Ashaninka Project

Forest Protection


INCOME GENERATION

Income Generation


By developing sustainable income streams for community partners, we relieve the pressure on the standing forest. From cacao and coffee, to rubber and traditional jewellery, we ensure the forest is worth more kept standing than cleared. Highlights this year include; WE’VE ALSO;

IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF CACAO in our Ashaninka Project to export quality for the first time. The harvest was sold to a UK chocolatier.

LINKING VIVIENNE WESTWOOD WITH AN ASSOCIATION OF AWAJÚN JEWELLERY PRODUCERS who inspired Vivienne’s Gold Label Collection for 2014.

BUILT THREE FISH FARMS to address malnutrition and boost local income through the sales of fish fry.


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Income Generation

“THE FOREST PRODUCES THE SEEDS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE OUR JEWELLERY AND THIS IS WHY WE

TAKE CARE OF THE FOREST. WE ARE VERY AGAINST PEOPLE WHO CUT DOWN THE FOREST. THANKS TO COOL EARTH WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE BEEN

STRENGTHENED AS AN INSTITUTION.

WE’VE BENEFITED FROM CAPACITY BUILDING THAT THEY PROVIDED AND IMPROVED OUR LINKS TO

MARKET. THIS IS BECAUSE COOL EARTH IS AWARE OF OUR NEEDS. WE FIND IT AMAZING THAT WE CAN SELL OUR JEWELLERY ABROAD, WE HAVE

MORE WORK AND ARE HAPPY TO HAVE BENEFITED BECAUSE WE WANT TO LEARN.”

Balbina Paukai, AMARNO member, Awajún Project

Income Generation


PARTNER SUPPORT

Partner Support


Local people are at the heart of all of Cool Earth’s projects. They choose how funds are spent and they drive the process. This year, our local partners strengthened four Community Associations with laptops, printers and solar power and our Ashaninka Project saw a 60% drop in malaria from the provision of mosquito nets for every family. WE’VE ALSO;“COOL EARTH’S SUPPORT TO GIVE US A WATER

SUPPLY HAS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. BEFORE WE HAD NO WATER AND HAD TO GO TO THE

MAMIRI RIVER TO COLLECT IT WHICH IS A GREAT DISTANCE AND WAS NOT CLEAN. NOW WE HAVE DRINKING WATER AND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE

LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE.”


EQUIPPED SIX RAINFOREST SCHOOLS WITH LEARNING RESOURCES.

INSTALLED CLEAN DRINKING WATER for the Ashaninka village of Coveja.

IMPROVING TRANSPORT FOR THE MOST REMOTE COMMUNITIES with three motorboats and fuel funds.

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Partner Support

Julián Quispe Carbólico, Tinkareni Village, Ashaninka Project

Partner Support


OUR VISION FOR 2015

Our Vision for 2015


COOL EARTH IS AT THE MOST EXCITING POINT IN ITS HISTORY.

We’re scaling-up our projects in the Western Amazon and Congo Basin and launching a brand new project in Papua New Guinea.

The launch of our first project in Oceania will mean the Cool Earth community-led model has been successfully replicated in the three major rainforest basins, tackling all of the world’s key drivers of deforestation

Within the next twelve months we have the chance to shield 10 million acres of rainforest.

With villages around the world queuing up to partner with us, this is the biggest chance we have to change the future of the world’s remaining rainforests.

“THE FOREST IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. IT’S WHERE WE FIND OUR MEANS AND WAYS OF LIVING. WE GO INTO THE FOREST AND MAKE

GARDEN. OR WE GO INTO THE FOREST WE LOOK FOR OUR HERBS FOR MEDICINE. AND WHEN WE GET INTO THE FOREST WE LOOK FOR WILD PIGS

OR BIRDS. IF WE HAVE NO FOREST WE WON’T BE SURVIVING. I AM VERY PLEASED AND PROUD OF COOL EARTH. COOL EARTH WILL DO ITS BEST FOR

THE COMMUNITY.”

Wendy Sema, Gadaisu village, Papua New Guinea

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IT’S HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW REMOTE THE ASHANINKA COMMUNITIES COOL EARTH SUPPORT ARE. You fly to Lima, take a small plane over the Andes, drive to the end of the road (literally), then take a boat for five hours. And suddenly, there you are – a little river dock, and groups of Ashaninka welcoming you to their village. Dressed in their traditional cushma robes, and bedecked with seed and feather jewellery, they are quite a sight.

I visited with Vivienne Westwood and her husband, Andreas Kronthaler. It wasn’t a usual week for a top fashion designer (and Dame). Ashaninka villages are beautiful but simple.

The Ashaninka welcomed us and the way of life proved seductive to us all. We were taken for walks in the forest to see the trees they revere, we swam in the river, and celebrated a fiesta with archery and barbecued wild rodent.

Most importantly, save for the project funded by Cool Earth the tribe are still entirely self-sufficient. They made it clear that our contribution, allowing them to resist offers from loggers, was vital and valued.

Mark Ellingham Cool Earth Trustee

ASHANINKA

Our Ashaninka Project in central Peru is working alongside 15 villages to form a shield to halt the advance of logging and protect millions of acres of pristine rainforest.

Located in one of Peru’s worst deforestation hotspots, we’re partnering with 6 Awajún villages to defend their vulnerable forest.

LOCATION CENTRAL PERU

THREAT LOGGING, COCAINE

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS CACAO, COFFEE

POPULATION 2,151

ACTIVE

AWAJÚNACTIVE

LOCATION NORTHERN PERU

THREAT LOGGING, EXTRACTION

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS FISH FARMS, SEED JEWELLERY

POPULATION 2,213

Our first project outside of the Amazon is working with 5 villages in eastern DR Congo to form a buffer for two neighbouring national parks.

LUBUTUACTIVE

LOCATION DR CONGO

THREAT MINING

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS AGROFORESTRY

POPULATION 12,900

Helping three villages turn down the offer of a palm oil contract to prevent 140,000 acres of primary forest being converted into monoculture.

GADAISUIN DEVELOPMENT

LOCATION PAPUA NEW GUINEA

THREAT PALM OIL

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS COCONUT OIL

POPULATION 270

Strengthening the capacity of six villages in PNG’s Highlands so they are best placed to make decisions on the future of their forest.

HUNSTEIN RANGEIN DEVELOPMENT

LOCATION PAPUA NEW GUINEA

THREAT LOGGING

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS SMOKED FISH, EAGLEWOOD RESIN

POPULATION 1,975

Protected 64,000 acres of forest by ensuring two communities along the blackwater rivers of Manicore and Madeira benefit from keeping the forest standing.

MADEIRACOMPLETE

LOCATION BRAZIL

THREAT CATTLE RANCHING

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS BRAZIL NUTS

POPULATION 2,400

Completed capacity building on forest management with 69 communities that surround the El Sira Reserve, creating a shield for Peru’s largest communal reserve.

EL SIRACOMPLETE

LOCATION CENTRAL PERU

THREAT ILLEGAL LOGGING

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS RUBBER, ACHIOTE

POPULATION 11,000

Secured the long-term protection of 55,000 acres of highly vulnerable Chocó rainforest in Ecuador and formed a corridor to link more than 900,000 acres of forest.

AWACACHICOMPLETE

LOCATION ECUADOR

THREAT CATTLE RANCHING

LIVELIHOOD FOCUS CACAO, HANDICRAFTS

POPULATION 865


FINANCIAL SUMMARY


INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OVERVIEW

PROJECT SPEND

EXPENDITURE BREAKDOWN

INCOME ₤1.2 Million

EXPENDITURE ₤1.0 Million

RESERVE ₤0.2 Million

Financial SummaryFinancial Summary

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