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Mission Statement
To partner with indigenous and traditional communities to build a more sustainable, empowered, and just future through community-based projects, outreach, and technical assistance.
About This Cause
The Earth’s biological and cultural diversity are increasingly under threat. We partner with indigenous and traditional communities to build a more sustainable, empowered, and just future by working towards community organization and well-being, biocultural conservation, and sustainable development. Currently, our work is focused in the Peruvian Amazon with the Maijuna indigenous group. Today, there are only 600 Maijuna individuals left living in four villages in a large, forested area between the Napo and Putumayo Rivers. Maijuna ancestral territory is one of the most biologically rich places on Earth. For example, Maijuna lands contain a complex of high terraces – an extremely unique and previously unknown habitat – that shelters a flora and fauna with new, rare, and specialized species. Researchers have also identified Maijuna ancestral forests as an area of extremely high carbon stocks, making the area a critically important carbon sink in a world increasingly concerned with and impacted by climate change. OnePlanet was founded in 2015 and builds on the extensive biocultural conservation work that our President and co-founder, Dr. Michael Gilmore, started with the Maijuna in 1999. We helped the Maijuna establish an indigenous federation, ultimately helping to empower and give voice to communities that had been marginalized for generations. Amongst other initiatives, we spearheaded a multi-year project with the Maijuna to map their remote ancestral territory and worked closely with them to successfully push the Peruvian Government to establish a 391,000-hectare Maijuna protected area (22% larger than Yosemite National Park). Regrettably, these previous successes are now in imminent danger. Of great concern to the Maijuna and OnePlanet is a proposed 130-km-long road with an accompanying 10-km-wide development corridor that the Peruvian government wants to build directly through the heart of the Maijuna protected area. This project has gained momentum over the past couple of years and it would devastate Maijuna ancestral lands and their traditional culture, as has happened to so many other indigenous groups in the Amazon and beyond. The Maijuna are adamantly against this road project and it is therefore more critical than ever to support them in their fight. But we need your help and support since we cannot do this alone. Please join us in helping to empower the Maijuna in the fight for the ancestral lands and cultural survival. Our 20 years of work with the Maijuna and our deep ties in their communities were made for this moment. To learn more about the Maijuna's fight for their ancestral lands and cultural survival as well as OnePlanet's work, check out the documentary film "Guardians of the Forest": https://www.oneplanet-ngo.org/guardians-of-the-forest