THE RAINFOREST CONSERVATION PROJECT

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Founded in 1988, the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF) is committed to ensuring the protection of the rainforests for future generations through functional resolutions while maintaining respectful relationships with the local population. RTF works mainly out of Peru within the million -acre Amazon basin of the ACRCTT (rea de Conservactin Regional Comunal Tamshiyacu Tahuayo). This conserved biodiverse area is one of the worlds largest. Among its thousands of species are the intelligent ri ver dolphins and stunning jaguars. Experts believe there are many undiscovered species in this area of the Amazon. There are almost 30 million people residing in Peru and roughly 11% of the population resides in the Peruvian Amazon. The RCF works with these local villagers and their governments to encourage conservation and to deliver alternate methods of sustainable forest and agricultural management. The people living along the basin and river rely on fishing, hunting and plan life for sustenance. Some of the ways in which the RCF helps the Peruvian Amazon include: implementing sustainable agricultural practices and agro forestry methods to an area next to the ACRCTT that had been degraded in the past initiating sustainable ways to make a living while decreasing the need for lumber and other fresh fruit and game from the rainforest blocking foreigners from extracting resources while imposing joint agreements among village communities to limit extraction providing sustainability education to community schools dispensing medical supplies as well as family planning and reproductive health services

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RCF expanded its conservation efforts in 2010 when it decided to support a southern Sri Lanka project with members of the Rainforest Rescue International (RRI). Because of the large strain on the current animal population in Sri Lanka, the RTF has agreed to help restore an ten thousand hectare area of rainforest. Planti ng native trees in dissolute areas of the forest is the main focus of this ongoing project. Another project that the RCF is currently supporting is one to help the endangered Maijuna, an indigenous group living in the Peruvian Amazon. The local government is trying to build a road straight through the Maijunas land but with the help of RCF, the Maijuna are trying to have their ancestral land preserved and legally protected. RCF also helps the Maijuna by creating bee-keeping facilities as a way to make a sustainable living in the rainforest. The Rainforest Conservation Fund and other similar foundations depend upon global support and awareness. To help preserve and protect rainforest populations, organisations like RCF are a vital part of the equation.