Regeneration and reforestation projects To date, ASHA has supported a handful of pilot projects focused on creating a regenerative bioeconomy, including several small-scale agroforestry productions with crops such as vanilla, fish farms and traditional crafts. ASHA has also supported a reforestation project in the Ecuadorian Amazon, resulting in the planting of 160,000 plants, including 20% of at-risk, near-extinct or high-risk species, and the rehabilitation of 1,600 acres (900 hectares) of land. The goal is to secure funding to scale up these pilot programmes throughout the bioregion.Advocacy ASHA’s advocacy efforts, together with many Ecuadorian environmental and youth organizations, contributed to the Ecuador 2023 people’s referendum in which citizens voted to “keep oil in the soil” in the Yasuni National Park, preventing the extraction of an estimated 1.67 billion barrels of crude oil. ASHA has also collaborated with partners to launch digital advocacy campaigns for Indigenous People living in voluntary isolation, resulting in the successful shelving of a Peruvian bill which would have stripped isolated populations of their rights. ASHA also supported the Chapra nation in their successful efforts to compel extraction companies to clean up a major oil spill that occurred in 2022. Building the world’s largest Indigenous-led conservation alliance Since ASHA’s inception, membership has grown from 11 to 28 member organizations, including 25 Indigenous-led organizations. The Bioregional Plan, completed in 2021, was the result of a 3.5- year participatory process bringing together an unprecedented number of stakeholders to align on a single vision. To progress this vision, in 2023, ASHA became a legally established, independent non-profit organization in Ecuador.Impact Legal action ASHA has supported collective advocacy and legal actions that have delayed or cancelled new oil blocks (blocks 79 and 83 in Ecuador and blocks 64 and 67 in Peru). ASHA has also supported the legal case that stopped the proposed Piatua dam in Ecuador and conducted various legal strategies to advance protection for isolated and uncontacted peoples in the Peruvian Amazon. This included providing funding for evidence-gathering that led to a court decision that asks the Peruvian government to legalize the Napo Tigre isolated Indigenous Peoples reserve. ASHA’s funding to an Alliance member recently led to a favourable court ruling in the department of Loreto Peru that orders the regional government to stop authorizing logging concessions in territories of isolated and uncontacted peoples including proposed reserves. Stopping extractive activities In 2022, AHSA’s support of Indigenous-led efforts successfully expelled illegal gold miners from the Awajun/ Wampis territories in the northern Peruvian Amazon. In 2022, national mobilizations led by Indigenous alliance members supported in part by the alliance led to a 12-month negotiated moratorium on new drilling in Ecuador. In cases where government has not complied with legal mandates, ASHA members continue to use legal and advocacy strategies to force compliance. The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 13

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