The Amazon Is Calling for Help: Save Thousands of Animal and Plant Species from Destruction
About the campaign
The Ecuadorian rainforest urgently needs help. It is under immediate threat from intensive gold mining and logging.
We are supporting our friend Agustin Grefa, a member of the Amazonian Kichwa indigenous community, whose connection to the Czech Republic comes through his wife, Míša.
His indigenous community is fighting to protect their land. Right now, they need to secure a crucial piece of rainforest – 22.8 hectares above a waterfall that sustains an extraordinary diversity of plants and wildlife.
If they fail to raise the funds, this rainforest will be destroyed forever.
Miners will cut down the trees, tear out the soil beneath their roots, and poison the river with arsenic and mercury.
A small gift for your support
We offer a “Strážce pralesa / Rainforest Guardian” certificate to every non-anonymous donor who contributes 300, 600, 1200, or 2400 CZK and includes the name for the certificate and their email address in the donation comment.
Certificate preview:
https://zivotpostaru.cz/darkove-certifikaty/
You will also receive a donation receipt for tax deduction purposes.
Who will your donation help?
Your support will help the Kichwa indigenous community, led by Agustin Grefa, who is working to build a self-sufficient protected reserve that preserves this unique natural heritage for future generations.
All funds will go to the transparent account of the organization Život Postaru, which will use them to purchase the 22.8 hectares of rainforest currently under direct threat.
This is not the first success — the organization has already managed to protect land beneath the waterfall.
Your help truly makes a difference.
Why it matters
The Amazon rainforest is often called the green lungs of our planet.
Its destruction threatens not only local ecosystems, but the global climate and the future of us all.
What will the funds be used for?
The funds will be used exclusively to purchase and protect the endangered rainforest land identified in satellite images.
For comparison, we also include images from 2020, when mining had not yet reached this area.
