Purpose

The purpose of the Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation is to provide a non-profit organization that will help the Amazon basin. The Preserve will raise and receive funds and assets to support its non-profit goals.

The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation promotes programs for scientific and medical research in the Amazon Basin. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will help discover, promote and educate the modern world on methods to protect the Amazon Basin and the importance to preserve the forest.

The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will promote the preservation of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and their culture in a modern world with harmony.

The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will protect the flora and fauna of as much of the Amazon rain forest as it possibly can. The corporate motto is: We are a group of environmentally sensitive people with diverse political, religious and ecological differences who have come together for the common good of humanity.

Mission Statement: The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation has as its mission the protecting and preservation of animals and plants in the Amazon basin. The ecosystems of the rainforest are to be ecologically developed, maintained, protected, and restored in order to have an environmental balance. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve will promote scientific studies to benefit mankind and the environment. Our mission intends to develop self-reliance, to educate, preserve the culture and promote health to the Indigenous peoples.

1. Raises funds to preserve the rainforest environment.

2. Identify and assess the animals and plants that inhabit the regions of the Amazon.

3. Acquire and maintain virgin rainforest.

4. Support programs that reduce the destruction of the rainforest.

5. Promote the restoration of deforested and damaged rainforest.

6. Establish and promote methods to maintain a healthy rainforest in the modern world.

7. Promote the health of the Indigenous people and their cultures.

8. Aid the Indigenous people to be integrated with modern techniques that preserve the rainforest.

9. Creates public awareness and education on the vital importance of the Amazon basin.

10. Identifies modern, ethical, environmental, medical and economic uses of fauna and flora.

Objectives:

The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation supports organizations, foundations, preserves, educational endeavors and research centers that strive to preserve the rainforest environment. The preservation of rainforest environment includes animal habitat, Indigenous peoples and their culture and the maintenance of virgin rainforest. The general goals of the preserve include species identification, assessing their interdependence within the rainforest ecology and to discover their usefulness to mankind.

The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will raise funds to accomplish the goals of the non-profit corporation and will sponsor projects that fulfill the mission statement and goals of the preserve. The preserve can accept funding from charitable and private sources and through revenues generated by operations of the preserve. The non-profit status will be maintained to provide charitable tax donation receipts to donors for money, gifts, funds valuable assets and property. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Incorporated, a non-profit corporation in the United States, will transfer real property, equipment and funds to our sister organization, the Amazonia Ecological Preserve Foundation, A Brasilian non-profit foundation. The Foundation in Brasil will directly implement and accomplish the goals of the Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will transfer assets, as needed to its sister non-profit organization the Amazonia Ecological Preserve Foundation in Brasil.

Lands will be purchased and there will be an assessment of life cycles of insect species, indigenous wild life and the migratory species. The tree and jungle flora will be assessed in the upper canopy, the lower canopy, the ground and waterways. The waterways will be assessed for their physical properties, including which microorganisms are present. The soil properties including the ph, bacteria, minerals, composition and compaction will also be determined.

A research center will be sponsored from the funds of the Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation, and the preserve will purchase, operate and maintain equipment for the analysis of the environment.

1. The research will begin to assess the plants and animals, their biological classifications and to determine their environmental needs and their biological properties. Medical and beneficial uses of plants and animals will be an important goal. The foundation will support methods of healthy genetic stock preservation and propagation.

2. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will promote the restoration of damaged and deforested areas of rainforest. Supporting of projects and the development of projects that repair the damaged rainforest is a major objective of the preserve. Re-forestation programs will be developed and there will be replanting projects to restore a healthy rainforest. Research for reforestation needs to be perfected.

3. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation has purchased some damaged rainforest. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will be purchasing additional farm, grazing lands and damaged rainforest. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation will support projects that will reduce or prevent deforestation. The farm and grazing lands where the soil has been depleted would be reconstituted with organic methods of fertilization, composting and crop rotation. The emphasis will be the prevention of additional and to create more useable farmland and replenish soil that has been exhausted. Educational workshops and projects will be developed for the indigenous people to help them learn these methods.
   
   Currently, farmers burn acres of rainforest and then farm the land for 1-3 years until the soil is exhausted. The spent farmland is then used for pasture, and there is a gradual reclaiming of the land by encroachment of secondary forest growth. The secondary forest growth is immature and unhealthy and is overgrown with vines, and is without a complete compliment of vegetation. One hundred years passes before the secondary rainforest reverts to the virgin rainforest state. We need to develop ways to accelerate the return of deforested areas to the natural rainforest.
   
   One of our primary goals is the prevention of deforestation in the preserve areas. The use of strip deforestation lumbering is to be condemned. Grove planting of trees for harvest on reclaimed farm and pasture land is to be part of the reforesting program.

4. The history of the indigenous people will be preserved at archeological sites. They gather, farm, hunt and fish for their daily needs and are a proud people. This is their way of life. Nut gathering in an ecologically sound way will produce funds for the preserve and income for the indigenous people. Their livelihood from farming has been a continuous cycle of burning and destroying acres of rainforest each year after year. The indigenous people are being encroached with the advancement of modern civilization, while their populations are growing with the introduction of western medicine. There is a need for increased sustenance because of the growing population.
   
   The destruction of the rainforest by the indigenous people produces a downward spiral as they are hanging on to old farming methods. New and efficient ways to produce food and products will be encouraged that will not destroy the rainforest. Efficient farming will reduce the need to burn more rainforest and the incorporation of modern organic farming techniques will save the soil and increases productivity. Methods of farming with crop rotation, organic fertilization and composting will certainly be useful.

5. Educational workshops will teach the indigenous people environmentally sound farming techniques. Projects and programs will be sponsored for the expansion of modern farming techniques. The farming of trees produces a replenishing timber resource; lumber, paper, hardwoods and furniture. Plantation tree farming can replace the destruction of virgin rainforest. Exhausted farmland would be reclaimed in a way that will reduce the need for the rainforest to be destroyed. Plantation tree farming will insure that there is an abundant supply of wood. The indigenous people will have employment and an opportunity to learn modern farming techniques with programs that will be sponsored, developed and supported by the Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation.

6. There are vast waterways in the Amazon basin and fishing is a major industry. Over-fishing has depleted local rivers around population centers. Fish farming preserves and increases the natural supply of fish populations. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve will promote the teaching, research and practice of fish farming and the preservation of the natural stocks of indigenous fish. In turn, this will produce and increased yield of fish for sustenance and marketing. Sport fishing in the wild as a recreational sport should be encouraged to be catch-and-release. There should be an enforced daily bag and size limit for sustenance for indigenous people and sportsmen. Market fishing is to be encouraged through farming and workshops.

7. As industrial development continually and relentlessly cuts into the jungle frontiers, mankind has one opportunity to pause and reflect on the priceless value of the Amazon. There are lasting decisions being made. We may possibly be holding decisions of life and death to our civilization. Only time can vindicate our endeavors. We at the Amazon Ecological Preserve, however, prefer to hedge on the side of conservation and caution.

The Amazon basin is a seemingly endless wilderness. The value of the Amazon to mankind is priceless and the basin is a vital organ to the Earth. We have an obligation to our posterity and ourselves to use prudently, to protect and to preserve the Amazon rainforest. The Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation Incorporated and its sister non-profit foundation, the Amazonia Ecological Preserve of Brasil are dedicated in the sound educational, economical and environmental uses of the rainforest and has as its primary objective, to preserve the Amazon basin for posterity.