APECA-Association Promoting Education and Conservation in Amazonia

11/20/2021

Thank you for supporting the efforts to support our environment! Here is another way YOU can make a difference.

Greta, Vanessa, Mitzi, and Dominika are taking this bold call to world leaders

12/02/2020

Greetings! We want to share our good news with you!

SUCCESS
A Holiday Recipe... To last a lifetime

Start with one child.
Give him ten tree sapling for his garden.
Give him an educated village leader to encourage him and work next to him.
Four years later those tress with flower and he will have hundreds of saplings to plant.
Six more years of growth, he will have trees for house construction plus saplings
Five more years of growth, he will have trees large enough to provide wide boards for furniture construction and how many more samplings to plant, sell or just share each year.
Result:

He will have a SUCCESS.
He will have increased self-esteem.
He will be helping his family grow out of poverty.
He will be preserving the Amazon Rainforest
for all of us!
PS: She is also very appropriate for this recipe!

On the islands of Muyuy in community of San Fransisco de Angamos, Rio Amazonas, Peru. APECA, Julio Luis and members of his community will plant more than 3,000 trees over the course of two years.

These trees, a renewable resource independent of the virgin forest, will be available for centuries. They will be used in family dwelling construction and sold to outlying villagers providing the opportunity of economic development for the entire community.

Education makes this reforestation successful.

Project participation requires village elected representatives to complete comprehensive APECA training programs designed by local experts in agriculture and natural resources. Trainings focus on the villager's role in maintaining the health and sustainability of the rainforest. Local Conservation Leaders monitor the success of the tree and mobilize the community as APECA facilitates the evolution of sustainable rainforest management.

Photos: Julio Luis at 10 years old and a more recent photograph of Julio Luis at El Fundo

To support the work of APECA, you can donate using this link: https://secure.processdonation.org/apecaperu/

09/24/2020

Be sure to vote! The environment needs your vote too!

If you agree that every eligible voter deserves to have their voice count, you can take action from home or in person by serving as a nonpartisan Election Protection volunteer. Will you sign up to be one of them?

08/29/2020

Choro Monkeys Martin, Rosita and Tarzan
Play time at the APECA Peru port of El Fundo Study Center on the Amazon River where local community elected volunteers become health care providers, midwives and conservation leaders. The reforestation nursery and demonstration ponds provide examples for villagers developing more stable communities see site:www.apecaperu.org to participate!
GOOD NEWS El Fundo and the villages are well and observing good use of sanitation education! The trained health care providers are doing a great job. Thank you to Pablo Guerra for all you do to bring good health to the villages of Rio Amazonas! Thank you

More than twenty three years ago, APECA began as a grass-roots effort in Remote Communities along the Amazon River in Peru, with a simple floating health clinic,

08/29/2020

Choro Monkeys Martin, Rosita and Tarzan
Play time at the APECA Peru port of El Fundo Study Center on the Amazon River where local community elected volunteers become health care providers, midwives and conservation leaders. The reforestation nursery and demonstration ponds provide examples for villagers developing more stable communities see site:www.apecaperu.org to participate!

More than twenty three years ago, APECA began as a grass-roots effort in Remote Communities along the Amazon River in Peru, with a simple floating health clinic,

06/17/2020

Update for those of you who have followed years of APECA in Peru. Covid-19 came to Iquitos Peru directly from international tourists and followed an extensive Dengue Epidemic that swept the population of over 500,000.. APECA Clean Water systems, Health Care Providers and Horticulture practices are making a tremendous difference the lives of thousands of villagers in the Amazon River Loreto region.Thank you for being there when their training was being given. Be there NOW to help with food shortage and medical supplies.Government health services are scarce and your participation through APECA can make the difference between life and death. To DONATE: www.apecaperu.org
More info on conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19

Una mujer mayor que cultiva vegetales acudió a donar su cosecha a un comedor popular en Perú; le donaron dinero y alimentos.

04/22/2020

HAPPY EARTH DAY! In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Mother Earth is healing. One of the great projects APECA works on is our Reforestation Program.

APECA provides small trees to children in the villages we serve, so they can take care of them and bring back life to the Amazon. Once the trees grow, they will provide fruit or wood to the villages.

With your donation, we can provide more trees to children!

Please share this message to reach more people!

https://secure.processdonation.org/apecaperu/

04/14/2020

Do what you can where you are!

04/06/2020

As our world is facing a global pandemic, the novel COVID-19 virus has reached Iquitos, Peru. El Fundo and the villages that we work with are still safe in lockdown.

APECA is facilitating transportation for Government Services.

We need your support more than ever to provide for essential supplies!

01/14/2020

Celebrating Environmental Conservation!

After more than a century without a single sighting of baby turtles on Pinzón Island in the Galapagos Islands, we have seen a small...

12/21/2019

So INCREDIBLY MANY people (approximately three) have asked me to post this long-ago Christmas design of mine, so here it is. If you're checking facebook on a tiny screen, good luck.