Positive News subscribers Sue and Jeremy Bugler founded The Size of Herefordshire in 2015 to protect an area of the Amazon rainforest at least the size of their county. The couple divided a map of Herefordshire into squares of 10 hectares and approached locals with the offer to “buy their squares” for £5 each. They also launched a tree-planting project, allowing people to sponsor one of 900 new trees in a three-acre patch of woodland on the couple’s own land. The £110,000 raised was given to the Forest Peoples Programme to help protect a substantial area of Amazonian rainforest belonging to the Wampis Indigenous group in north-eastern Peru. The money enabled the Wampis to secure legal recognition of their lands from the Peruvian government, allowing them to take legal action against oil and gold prospectors exploiting their land
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