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Benki lives in one of the most preserved parts of the forest; preserved, largely thanks to his people’s activism. Through the Yorenka Ãtame project (the Wisdom of the Forest), the Ashaninka have replanted over 2.3 million trees in the last 30 years in invaded, degraded areas in the Upper Juruá Valley, a region that holds some of the yet untouched watersheds of the Amazon basin. More recently, Benki has created Yorenka Tasorentsi (the Wisdom of the Great Spirit), a healing center, reforestation institute, and educational space to teach humanity about the science of nature, how to live in harmony with ourselves and our surroundings, how to take care of the forest, and all its inhabitants, so that we can leave a more beautiful world for generations to come.
The Yorenka Tasorentsi territory, acquired with the generous donations of the Boa foundation community, is now under severe threat. Several criminal fires have been carried out recently inside its perimeter; trees have been cut down and there has been an attempted home invasion near its limits. Such fires and invasions are being perpetrated by entrepreneurs taking advantage of the dismantling of government institutions for the protection of indigenous peoples and the environment promoted by the Bolsonaro presidency. Benki and the Tasorentsi team have thus put together an emergency fund for defending the center against these invasions.
Benki is doing a class about his sacred medicines to raise funds for this cause.
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