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- EIN 51-0541583
- (510) 295-5118
- 1854 San Juan Ave Berkeley CA 94707-1622 USA
- www.caura.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Land Resources Conservation
Mission: Caura futures, inc. Exists for the purpose of forest ecosystem conservation and, to that end, support of indigenous culture, where "forest ecosystem" is defined as all biotic and abiotic components of a forested watershed, including all waterways and any habitat, such as savanna, surrounded by forest, and "indigenous culture" is defined as any cultural practice belonging to any aboriginal forest tribe.
Programs: In 2017, caura futures continued to expand its palm conservation (palm climbing) project to the department of loreto, peru. We conducted additional palm climbing trainings throughout the year with a total estimated direct participation of 300 people, not including observers and meeting participants. We censused palms for fruit production data and continued large scale tests with palm fruit pulp production for market feasibility studies. We sold 125 sets of climbing gear to institutions in peru.
caura futures supported community access to cultural library archives in the caura basin in 2017. We funded travel and meetings aimed at increasing community usage of the cultural library. We significantly expanded our development of an android mobile application for community access to library archives. We continued to fund the expansion and maintenance of building infrastructure and equipment that makes these activities possible. As caura futures has done for 12 years, it continued to provide a stipend for the principal archivist and support for other occasional indigenous collaborators in the caura basin. We also supported collaborators in ecuador who are developing community-accessible indigenous knowledge libraries there, centered on knowledge of rain forest animal natural history. We expanded our efforts to guatemala and ecuador.
in 2017, caura futures continued to help native people of the caura river basin to develop their capacity for detection and treatment of malaria. Chronic illness hurts communities and diminishes forest stewardship. Malaria detection and treatment is carried out by two ye'kwana technicians trained in microscopy and supplied by the venezuelan government caicet (amazonian center for research and control of tropical diseases).