The freedon costed one dollar

When a group of young ecologists got amazed by the surface riches at Codo del Pozuzo, found also many who wanted the underground riches. Then, they thought of creative solutions to the controversy.

 

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, Peru – If you had a dollar in 2005 and you did not know what to spend it, the Selva Libre (Free Jungle) Project could interest you. It was a creative initiative launched by the same name’s group that fought to establish a non-profit organization to develop a creative conservation project at Codo del Pozuzo.

 

On its alert briefs, Selva Libre assured if you contributed one dollar, they invested it to protect 3584 square feet, that equals 30% (or 1½ house) of the average block’s surface at a Lima’s bourgh. Following with Maths, the group was beyond – if you had 30 dollars, you can protect until 107,637 square feet, that means –following with comparisons—the full block.

 

    Get out down there!

It was not simple aritmethics but another run against the time. The riches in wood, minerals, and hydrocarbons detected in Oxapampa, Pasco Region’s Amazon Jungle, have waken up the greed of many investors. “Near here, the people is selling their lands located in zones where there is still raw jungle. Many lands are being bought by farmers and who exploit without discrimination,” Selva Libre’s president Ana Platzer told.

 

If that was not enough, there were problems of deforestation, what reduces the natural chances to refresh the air. As you may know, the trees take the carbon dioxide from the organic combustions for turning in oxygen, but just to remind it to you, the Amazon Jungle is the only lung of the planet which we the humans are leaving without weapons to defend.

 Selva Libre assured the deforested trees were the homes of many animal species the organization wanted to study. This made impossible because there was not any, simply.

 

    Home, Green home

The inttention of the guys was not moving out of the zone, even living there. Basing on the private reserves mode framed by the Peruvian Law, Selva Libre looked for acquiring lands to build eco-villages and to recuperate the swept forests. Then, the Special Project of Land entitling (PETT as its acronyme in Spanish) in Oxapampa, that depended on the Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture, said it eased the property paperwork if they were intended to keep the zone.

 

An exploration trip gave the group with reasons to occupy an area at the so-called Codo del Pozuzo, an exuberant and raw zon. “The trail goes through mountains and the outer jungle, the landscapes we have looked at are astonishing, the weather is fantastic, and there is water everywhere,” Selva Libre’s vice-president Isabel Guzmán stated.

 

Of course, arriving to the promised land took them almost three days, but a plane could do it just a couple of hours. The problem is that the progress already built highways, downtowns, and transportation cores. The thing was not too simple as it was pictured, or like it was seen.

 

    Wanted

“Don’t lose more time, our kids don’t deserve we leave a erased planet, the future’s technology is not going to recuperate everything we are destroying,” Ana Platzer reflectionated a decade and a half ago. Selva Libre waited for sponsors and partners who joined the adventure and lived at Codo del Pozuzo in the most pure communion and respect with Nature.

 

In the same way, they required advisory and help to propose an alternative vision to development projects those could destroy the zone. Hydrocarbon extraction projects in raw jungles ended to pollute large zones, like happened in Ecuador with Texaco and Shell during the 1990s. The group also scheduled other fundraising activities like eco-tourism and environmentally sustainable projects which validation was to get through their online contacts.

 

At the same time, they gave eco-therapy courses in Oxapampa. We tried to contact Ana for updating information, but at this entry’s deadline, it was difficult. At the moment, we wonder how much it could saved with that bottom dollar.