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Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that the Brazil Nut Corridor remains intact. If the long-term survival of the Brazil Nut Corridor is assured, then so too is a way of life in SE Peru that goes back generations. We are working with local Brazil nut concessionaires to plant young trees within their concessions, both by producing young Brazil nuts in our shadehouses at Finca Las Piedras and by training the concessionaires in silvicultural best practices to ensure they are able to carry out this important work themselves.Ī declining harvest over time will also bring economic decline, so reversing this trend benefits the families and communities that depend on the forest.

As the harvest diminishes, the value placed on these forests declines and pressure will mount, in turn, to convert them to other land uses.

Maintain the sustainability of the Brazil nut harvestĭecades of overharvest and a near total lack of replacement planting means that, as large trees die of old age, new trees are not growing in their place, threatening the long-term survival of Brazil nut forests in SE Peru. Our Brazil Nut Corridor Project aims to secure the long-term viability of this important regional activity, both in ecological and economic terms. Thus, Brazil nuts are essentially the only economically scalable yet sustainable non-timber forest product not only in the Amazon, but in all of the world’s tropics, and their extraction represents a rare win-win situation for both people and nature. Concessions, which typically range in size from 500 to 2,000 hectares, are privately managed by concessionaires, most of whom are descendants of the region’s first colonists of the modern era. As the ASA has shown through its research and monitoring projects, these areas are also themselves important biodiversity areas. The bulk of Brazil nut concessions lies strategically between major protected areas of global significance, forming an important link between conservation units that are otherwise becoming increasingly isolated by forest clearing at their peripheries. As a result, the Peruvian government has designated most of this area as extractive reserves-'concessions', as they're called in Peru-for the sustainable harvest of Brazil nuts, where the clearing of forest and other destructive activities are forbidden. Brazil nuts grow at such densities in this area that the extraction of their nuts from The so-called ‘Brazil Nut Corridor’ comprises more than one million hectares of mature rainforest in southeastern Peru that is dominated by Brazil nut ( Bertholletia excelsa) trees and other tropical

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