Planting Empowerment (PE) is pioneering a new forestry
model in Panama’s marginalized Darien region.
Addressing the need to improve the quality of life
among the inhabitants of the “forgotten province”,
as well as confront the increasing environmental degradation
in the area, PE partners with rural Indigenous and
Hispanic communities to plant and manage sustainable timber plantations. We accomplish this by securing
long-term leases on these peoples’ impacted
land and offsetting their income from unchecked logging.
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