Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Together we will make the difference

This is not about ME and YOU any longer, it’s about ALL OF US, and how WE can avoid further escalation of OUR problems and turn them into “profitable”, humane and environmental sustainable solutions. Feel in your heart what is needed of you, conserving land and protecting our rainforests is about much more than just the trees; WE need to understand, respect and submit to these realities today.

Our immediate future is before our eyes. Tomorrow, we will have lost 200 football fields of rainforest and extinct three animal species. One indigenous will be murdered by illegal miners, 20 indigenous will be sick from drinking polluted water and two killed in attacks on their villages, 10 species of fish will be overfished and three extinct, because all “bush meat” disappeared when the forest was cut or burned down. One family opposing the forest destruction will be forced to leave their home, five poor persons will die or be severely injured in illegal forest and mining operations, three young girls will be raped or forced into prostitution, 300 fires will be lit by illegal farmers, 200 wild fires will start in selected areas; resulting in all trees being removed and the ground vegetation left dry, one Jaguar will die from hunger when its natural prey disappeared or it will be killed by poachers, This could continue over several pages.…

This need not be tomorrows world, we can make a huge difference!

Lend me your mental and physical strength so we can make a huge difference as we now are two. Bring your brother, and we become a platoon, if your brother brings his girlfriend we will become an army. And if she has a sister…

Welcome as a friend of HFCO!

The HFCO Mission

Happy Forest Children Organization (HFCO) will through establishing relations with indigenous grassroot alliances as COICA and international organizations such as UN’s Save the Children, UNICEF, NORAD, UKAID, USAID international childrens foundations and others; strengthening the stewardship of vital ecosystems, honoring ancestral wisdom in the creation and application of sustainable development practices.

HFCO will support in preserving cultural identity and traditions through true intercultural education, and standing in solidarity with our allies for environmental and social justice, we will ensure a clean, just and sustainable future for all Happy Forest Children needing our international help.

HFCO support innovative, intercultural educational projects in Indigenous communities throughout the Amazon; help preserve Indigenous children’s traditions that contain conservation ethics and practices that have sustained them in the rainforest for millennia; integrate indigenous knowledge with the best contemporary science and practices to strengthen cultural identity, cultivate leadership and reinforce a sustainable worldview founded on tradition.

Preserve, celebrate, and deepen our understanding of the ancient plant-based healing practices and spirituality of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and help preserve their shamanistic traditions and encyclopaedic knowledge of plant medicines and intelligence.

HFCO support national plans for improving of children’s rights by law

The HFCO Vision

HFCO PERU, HFCO BRAZIL, HFCO ECUADOR, HFCO COLOMBIA

The preservation of the Amazon is of critical importance to life across our planet. Our vision is to ensure that the protection will happen all over the entire Amazonian rainforest will we support such initiatives in the initial phase where HFCO’s will develop projects firstly in the Peruvian then the Ecuadorian, Brazilian and Colombian part of the Amazon basin before HFCO will include all LATAM countries into their partner portfolios.

HFCO will initiate work to secure the well-being of children in the indigenous population, work with and guided by community-based models of sustainable development bridging traditional wisdom with modern knowledge. Modern knowledge establish real development and modern support, at the same time respecting old and established values and cultures so they are kept untouched and unchanged.

Rather than being separate from nature, we recognize our place in the interconnected web of life. We understand that when we despoil the Earth and its atmosphere, we directly do harm to ourselves. We believe a new era approaches where we live co-creatively and recognize the sacredness of Mother Earth. Gaia shows us by sustaining and celebrating life in all its diversity and working together with respect, compassion, and unity, we foster the creation of a fair, thriving and healthy environment for current and future generations.