1 Crocodile wardens Sim Kmao (left) and Growing and Learning | New Partnerships Yem Khoeun on the way to check a nest near the rehabilitation site in .

Cool Earth has an ambitious target to develop at least 30 new partnerships around the tropics by 2030.

Cool Earth has formed three new partnerships in Cambodia, Cameroon, and .

Each partnership brings different challenges, cultural intricacies and complex drivers of . This means no two approaches to rainforest protection will be the same.

Cool Earth believes that tackling these challenges shouldn’t be top-down, from charity to community. Instead, we support local and indigenous knowledge to develop the best ways to protect rainforest and then share this understanding between rainforest communities around the globe.

Our supporters have played a central role in helping to develop these new partnerships, with smart investment at the heart of the learning, feasibility and implementation process. Your backing enables us to further our knowledge and improve our approach to tackling some of the complex challenges that communities face.

2 3 Cool Earth KEY Logging Mining Loss of culture Bushmeat hunting

Partnerships Malnutrition Poverty Health Palm oil Illiteracy Remoteness

Unsustainable farming Drought Charcoal Wildlife conflict Flooding

HUARACAYO Sustainable cacao production, Inga intercropping

URAKUZA MOUNT MUANENGUBA CARDAMOM MOUNTAINS GADAISU Fish farming, Fruit tree farming, Chicken farming, Household Giving Programme, Inga intercropping Education Rice production Income generation

CAMANTAVISHI PARIJARO LUBUTU WABUMARI Community-led data collection, Agroforestry and coffee production, Energy-efficient stoves, Health and sanitation, Funding for financial resilience Community -led data collection Firewood use reduction Income generation

CUTIVIRENI OVIRI MOUNT NAMULI SOLOLO Fish farming, Funds for health and education, Beekeeping, Education programme, Inga intercropping Supporting planning decisions Education Teacher training

4 5 Location Challenges Activities Adelina Jackson, the Queen of Zambezia Province, Potato farming Sustainable agriculture Namuli, sits outside her house Mozambique Wildfire Beekeeping at the foot of the mountain. Drought Leadership

Mount Namuli | Mozambique

If we are to scale up effective rainforest conservation right around the globe, we must learn from a range of approaches that tackle different drivers of deforestation. Sharing the best methods is key to building the global knowledge and know-how needed for effective rainforest protection.

Farming is the main source of income for several families around Mount Namuli. Potatoes grow well here and fetch a high price at the local market. But this income is increasingly coming at a great cost to rainforest. Limited livelihood alternatives means local people are forced into using unsustainable agricultural techniques such as slash-and-burn to make an income that puts food on the table.

That’s why Cool Earth has partnered with local expert organisation, Legado, to develop a beekeeping programme that aims to increase sustainable livelihood options and reduce further forest degradation.

From increasing and drought, local people around Mount Namuli are already seeing the impacts of deforestation. It’s clear that Cool Earth’s partnership in Mozambique is a challenge. But it’s an essential challenge, and one that we’re rising to.

" The experiences that Cool Earth has had in other countries can be used here."

- Filimonio Felizardo, Legado, Mozambique

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7 Location Challenges Activities Southwest Province Financial poverty Livelihood diversification of Cameroon Logging Sustainable agriculture Bushmeat hunting Education

Mount Muanenguba | Cameroon

Conflict and social upheaval undoubtedly reduces people’s opportunities to escape financial poverty. When it continues, conservation is almost always put on the back burner and pressure on the environment increases.

That’s why Cool Earth is working with a steadfast local NGO, the Centre for Community Regeneration and Development (CCREAD) in Cameroon, to give people more control over their own choices, develop sustainable incomes and reduce degradation in the surrounding forest.

One key area for the communities of Mount Muanenguba is how to reduce reliance on hunting bushmeat in this highly diverse area for . Despite the risk, illegality and impact on rainforest, many have little choice but to turn to hunting rare wildlife to earn a living.

Cool Earth is working to diversify local livelihoods by introducing community fruit tree nurseries, sustainable farming techniques and beekeeping practices. It’s all to ensure households can produce food, reinvest profits into their families and reduce pressure on their forest.

" I’m doing what I like to do, and want to do what I can. I might have to move on foot for hours, but I need to be there to encourage others."

- Hilary Ngide, Executive Director, CCREAD

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8 Cameroon rainforest Location Challenges Activities The village of Por Beung sits amongst , Food insecurity Livelihoods the Cardomom Mountains in the Koh Cambodia Financial poverty Rice production Kong province of Cambodia. Wildlife conflict conservation

Cardamom Mountains | Cambodia

Effective conservation is only possible if local people are empowered to protect their forest. Cool Earth aims to create strong, healthy and financially resilient communities needs to be a key part of any effective conservation model.

For rainforest communities in Cambodia, the severity of hunger months often means a greater reliance on logging and hunting for an income and regular source of food. Cool Earth’s new partnership in the lush rainforest of the Cardamom Mountains, alongside Fauna & Flora International (FFI), envisions a future where local communities are enabled to sustainably manage and protect their environment.

From promoting techniques that improve rice production to creating alternative livelihoods as crocodile wardens, Cool Earth aims to reduce hunger months, limit local logging and minimise the need to hunt for bushmeat. Cool Earth is helping local people to take back control of their forest and live in harmony with local wildlife.

"I am happy to live here, it is my birth land. I love to live here, I love the forest and I don’t want to lose it. I am committed to protecting it.”

- Sao Jan, Commune Councillor, Por Beung

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11 " I’m optimistic about the programme. If everyone were to adopt the agricultural practices then I’m hopeful that the animals will come back, the rivers will flow, and the rains will become regular again."

Callisto Imora, Mozambique

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