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COOL EARTH ANNUAL REPORT 2014 / 2015
COOL EARTH ANNUAL REPORT 2014 / 2015
COOL EARTH IS THE CHARITY THAT WORKS ALONGSIDE INDIGENOUS VILLAGES TO HALT RAINFOREST DESTRUCTIONIntroductionHighlightsProject AchievmentsOur VisionFinanical Summary
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Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 03Introduction
COOL EARTH GOES GLOBAL We’ve come a long way in seven years. From a single village partner in the Peruvian Amazon, Cool Earth is now a global movement spanning three continents.
The idea behind Cool Earth has always been to help villages take control of the rainforest they’ve depended upon for generations. It’s an approach that runs counter to the traditional reserve model of the big conservation groups yet is proven to be the most effective way to keep rainforest standing.
This effectiveness is largely down to its simplicity. By ensuring people on the ground make the decisions, Cool Earth can operate anywhere, from the Amazon to the Congo and, as of 2014, Oceania.
This approach has achieved more than any of us could have imagined with half a million acres now saved and more added each day.
It is a terrific testament to what can be done with a light-touch approach that works with, rather than against, local people. Tiny grants, small investments and a helping hand has safeguarded community forest that will stand the test of time and loggers. It’s a simple model, it’s a sustainable model, and thanks to over 40,000 total supporters, it puts the right people back in control of the forest. MATTHEW OWEN
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 05Highlights
386,000ACRES SAVED
35,410LOCAL PEOPLE SUPPORTED
29,000,000,000LITRES OF WATER PRODUCED ANNUALLY
WE’VE SAVED HALF A MILLION ACRESWith 500,000 acres protected by our partners, over five million acres of forest is inaccessible to loggers.
WE’VE REPLICATED OUR MODELCool Earth’s community-led approach is now saving forest across three continents, spanning the world’s major rainforests biomes.
WE’VE PROVEN IT WORKS Our Asháninka partners have lost 0.53% of their forest, compared to a regional rate of 28%. It’s no surprise that Peru’s based its National Forest Programme on the Cool Earth model.
HIGHLIGHTS
120 MILLIONTREES KEPT STANDING
THREE COMPLETED PROJECTS
130,000,000TONNES OF CO2 LOCKED IN
118 PARTNER VILLAGES
HALTING RAINFOREST
DESTRUCTION
36,473LOCAL PEOPLE
UNITED TO DEFEND THEIR HOMES
38 BILLION
LITRES OF WATER PRODUCED
ANNUALLY BY COOL EARTH
PROJECTS
HALF A MILLION
ACRES SAVED
80 SPECIESON THE IUCN RED LIST PROTECTED BY SAFEGUARDING THEIR HABITATS
THREE CONTINENTSWE’VE PROVEN OUR MODEL WORKS ACROSS THE GLOBE
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 07Partnership Achievements
Cool Earth is the only charity that focuses solely where the threat to the forest is greatest, with partnerships located on the frontline of forest destruction. Each partnership forms a shield to make the neighbouring forest inaccessible to loggers, saving millions of acres of further forest.
Our partnerships are built to achieve three outcomes:
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
INCOME GENERATION
FOREST PROTECTION
PARTNERSHIP ACHIEVEMENTS
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 09Community Empowerment
COMMUNITYEMPOWERMENT
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“I AM SO PROUD OF OUR NEW SCHOOL. WE’VE NEVER HAD A PROPER BUILDING BEFORE. THE
STRUCTURE WOULD ALWAYS COLLAPSE AND THE CHILDREN WOULD LOSE OUT ON SCHOOLING. THIS BUILDING WILL LAST AND BE GOOD FOR
THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU.”
Community Empowerment
Vanessa Quirigua, Saboroshiari School Teacher
Cool Earth places funds directly in the hands of indigenous communities for them to decide what they need most.
This year our local partners built four medical outposts, three new classrooms and funded midwife training.
Better health, better education and better livelihoods all lead to forest kept standing.
OTHER LOCAL INVESTMENTS IN 2014 INCLUDED:
FUNDED AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL PROGRAMME FOR OUR ASHÁNINKA PARTNERS Our Asháninka partners designated a project wide emergency evacuation fund to evacuate the seriously ill to hospital saving 15 lives.
INVESTED IN 37 COMMUNITY AND FAMILY FISH FARMS The waterways around the Awajún Partnership are contaminated from illegal gold mining upstream. Our partners invested in 37 fish farms to ensure families have pollution free protein.
HELPING YAKOLIMA CHILDREN GET BACK TO SCHOOL All 67 households in our Yakolima Partnership were provided with a ‘back-to-school bursary’ to cover costs of a new school year - simple items such as uniforms and school books.
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Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 13Income Generation
INCOME GENERATION
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 15Income Generation
Sergio Capeshi, Ayompari President
Boosting local livelihoods helps to relieve the pressure on the standing forest and create strong self-determining communities.
From training 59 people in agroforestry in Lubutu to marketing workshops for the 60 artisans in our Awajún Partnership, we’re ensuring our partners can out-price forest destruction.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2014:
DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF CACAO PRODUCERS IN THE AYOMPARI GROWERS ASSOCIATIONMembership grew from 69 to 174 families. Cacao is the key income stream for this area, providing an alternative to logging.
WE PRODUCED THE FIRST COOL EARTH CHOCOLATE BARIt is made with beans grown, harvested and fermented by our Asháninka partners. This is the first time the beans have made it into a single origin, handmade bar - traceable back to the village.
HITTING THE CATWALK Vivienne Westwood adorned every model in her Paris Show with jewellery made by the artisans in our Awajún Partnership.
WORKING WITH COFFEE PRODUCERS IN FIVE NEW VILLAGES We started working with the coffee producers in the five higher altitude villages in the Asháninka Partnership and employed a coffee technician to improve crop quality.
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“WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT MY ROLE IS BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT MY ASHÁNINKA
BROTHERS. CACAO IS VITAL FOR US. IT GIVES A HOUSEHOLD SUSTAINABILITY -
MONEY FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION, FOOD FOR OUR CHILDREN.”
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FOREST PROTECTION
Forest Protection
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 19Forest Protection
2014 has been an unforgettable year for Cool Earth with a brand new partnership in a brand new continent. We’re now operating in all three of the world’s major rainforest basins – saving more than half a million acres of at-risk rainforest. This community-protected forest is forming a shield to protect five million acres of neighbouring forest from destruction.
MILESTONES THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
“OUR TREES ARE SAFE, I CAN SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT AGAIN. WE’RE TELLING OUR NEIGHBOURS ABOUT
COOL EARTH. WORKING WITH COOL EARTH TO PROTECT OUR TREES MEANS ALL OUR FAMILIES BENEFIT. IT’S BETTER THAN SELLING WOOD TO
BENEFIT A FEW.”
A NEW CONTINENTThe developemnt of our Yakolima Partnership in Papua New Guinea, working with three villages to block the advance of the palm oil frontier.
GROWING THE SHIELD The village of Oviri joining our Asháninka Partnership – putting 16,000 more acres into community protection.
KICKING OUT THE LOGGERS The critically important village of Kayants kicking out the illegal loggers and joining their neighbours to become part of our Awajún Partnership.
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Leopoldo Chimanga Chumpate Oviri Village, Peru
MAPPING FOR THE FUTURE20 people trained in GPS and a further 76 trained to continue mapping our largest project in Africa.
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OUR VISION
Our Vision for 2015
Cool Earth Annual Report 2014/15 23Our Vision for 2015
The village decides what it needs most: everything from clean water and a new classroom to midwife training and mosquito nets.
EVERYONE HAS A SAY ON HOW FUNDS ARE SPENT
The village forms an association and signs an agreement with Cool Earth that ensures:
• NO FOREST IS CLEARED• FOREST REMAINS OWNED BY THE VILLAGE• FUNDING IS SPENT TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE
A VILLAGE SIGNS A FOREST PROTECTION AGREEMENT
Cool Earth enables the village to earn more from keeping the forest standing than selling to loggers, by investing in income streams likecacao, coffee and coconut oil.
WE HELP BUILD LIVELIHOODS TO OUTPRICE DESTRUCTION
Neighbouring villages see Cool Earth as apartner they can trust and ask to work with ustoo. As villages link up, a shield is formed toprotect the forest behind.
WORD OF MOUTH SPREADS OUR WORK
We only work where the rainforest is most at-risk. And to protect the rights of indigenous people, we only partner with villages that approach us.
A VILLAGE CALLS FOR HELP
THE COOL EARTH MODEL IS SAVING RAINFOREST VILLAGE BY VILLAGE.
The biggest threat to the world’s rainforest no longer comes from soya, cattle or palm. It comes from persistent, small-scale degradation.
Whether driven by illegal logging, slash and burn farming, cocaine production or the search for fuel wood, rainforest loss is a local problem on a global scale.
Cool Earth’s model meets these threats head-on. By empowering local people to keep their forest safe, together we can meet any challenge.
This means we have the chance to protect more rainforest through community partnerships than any other charity or any government – extending the forest shield across the major arcs of deforestation.
We strongly believe that the rainforest can be saved, and that we’ve got the model to do it.
ACTIVE
AWACACHICOMPLETE
MADEIRACOMPLETE
EL SIRACOMPLETE
Defending forest in one of Peru’s worst deforestation hotspots
AWAJÚNACTIVE
LOCATION NORTH PERU
THREAT LOGGING, EXTRACTION
PARTNER VILLAGES6
ASHÁNINKAACTIVE
Shielding millions of acres of forest in the Western Amazon
LOCATION CENTRAL PERU
THREAT LOGGING, COCAINE
PARTNER VILLAGES16
Ensuring local people benefit from keeping their rainforest standing
LUBUTU
LOCATION EAST DR CONGO
THREAT MINING
PARTNER VILLAGES5
Blocking the advance of the palm oil frontier
LOCATION EAST PAPUA NEW GUINEA
THREAT PALM OIL
PARTNER VILLAGES3
YAKOLIMAACTIVE
OUR FOREST IS NOT FOR SALE, WE WILL NOT BE DESTROYED BY LOGGING”
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Julián Quispe Carbólico
I AM AWAJÚN BY MY BLOOD AND BY MY HOME IN THE RAINFOREST. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT OUR HOME NEEDS PROTECTING.”
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Marcelina Ashas Tsawan
WE CANNOT HAVE A GOOD LIFE WITHOUT OUR FOREST. WE DEPEND UPON IT FOR ALL OF OUR RESOURCES.”
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Mbake Silva
THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN COOL EARTH AND YAKOLIMA IS TO LOOK AFTER THE RAINFOREST. WE DON’T WANT OIL PALM TO COME INTO OUR AREAS.”
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Wicky Isaac
ACTIVE
LOCATION WEST BRAZIL
SAVED 64,000 ACRES
PARTNER VILLAGES5
LOCATION NORTHWEST ECUADOR
SAVED 55,000 ACRES
PARTNER VILLAGES4
LOCATION CENTRAL PERU
PARTNER VILLAGES69
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FINANCIALSUMMARY
43%
17%
19%
15%
6%
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS
This includes items like water pumps, solar driers, food and transport. The villages vote on what they need most.
PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Partnership development enables us to set up the basic infrastructure essential for starting work with a partner village.
HEALTH AND EDUCATION
Investing in maternal health programs, mosquito nets, medication, schools, and more.
FOREST ADVOCACY
We help secure the rights of the people we’re working with, so they can prove they own their forest.
CONSERVATION TRAINING
Our partners make a pledge to track their progress, ensuring the biodiversity of the region is protected.
4% FUTURE PROJECTS
69%
16%
11%WESTERN AMAZON CONGO
BASIN
OCEANIA
8 COMMUNITIES EMPOWERED WITH
TRANSPORT
Cool Earth’s income increased by 12% and expenditure by 25% in 2014-15.
This reflects the new partnership in Papua New Guinea and expansion of our work in Peru and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
EXPENDITURE
INCOME
£1,162,789
43% 19% 17% 15% 6%
INCOME + EXPENDITURE
EXPENDITURE: PROJECTS
£1,321,339
EXPENDITURE: DISTRIBUTION
RESERVE £158,550
12 TONNES OF CACAO VS COFFEE PRODUCED A YEAR
19 RAINFOREST SCHOOLS SUPPORTED
24 SCHOLARSHIPSFUNDED
4 MEDICAL OUTPOSTS BUILT
64 COFFEE PRODUCERS SUPPORTED
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672 MOSQUITO NETS PROVIDED
41 HOMES BUILT FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE
46 FAMILIES SUPPLIED WITH SAFE WATER
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3 ANTI-VENOM KITS
