Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru, South America

Located in Peru’s high forest between the Andes and the Amazon basin, this Cordillera Azul National Park project restores degraded forests with new agroforestry systems growing cacao and coffee. Alongside preventing more than 25.2 million tonnes of carbon being released into our atmosphere to date, the project provides livelihood and income generating programs as well as job opportunities for local communities living in the buffer zone around the park boundaries - and protects the unique biodiversity of the area, which is home to around 6,000 plant species and more than 180 species of fish.

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