A very productive meeting today between the Mayor of Yoro, Martha Puentes, and the Yoro Biological Corridor team (above).
In addition to a National Park Co-Managers meeting (below).
These meetings are part of the on-the-ground work to coordinate development of the right model for the region, which is plagued by immediate deforestation and water scarcity problems. This developing ‘Yoro Model’ leads to a fully protected forest corridor that also serves local communities.
TORONTO, CANADA – Dr. Jane Goodall, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace, offers to join the Yoro Biological Corridor (YBC) Advisory Board “Comite de Gestion” in a public letter to the newly elected president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro.
With this public letter of support Dr. Jane Goodall has expressed her interest in Cafe Solar® and the Yoro Biological Corridor Initiative. The goal is to encourage the implementation of a progressive forestry law that will protect Honduran national parks and watersheds, restore forest on private lands, and integrate sustainable economic development.
Dr. Jane Goodall has direct experience in coffee and connecting forest parks in Gombe, Africa through her Jane Goodall Institute, and agreed to serve as an advisor to the Yoro Biological Corridor board on May 1, 2022.
“There is no better person to become part of the oversight team, and at such a key time with the first female president of Honduras making important changes for the country right now,” says Derek Zavislake from Merchants of Green Coffee and YBC co-developer.
The Yoro Biological Corridor initiative involves many partners, all of whom are ecstatic about the news: “Adding her global weight is incredibly encouraging to everyone and we are hoping to accelerate the process in enacting the corridor through Honduras’ progressive forestry law, which has yet to be used for this purpose,” says Raul Raudales from Mesoamerican Development Institute (MDI) and YBC developer.
“Forests are critical and require people for protection …” writes Dr. Jane Goodall in her letter of support, “… Honduras’ progressive forest law is a great example of leadership for the region as a whole.”
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Background:
Yoro Model: Model of producing coffee designed to restore and conserve forest on private lands (coffee farms) currently being demonstrated and refined in Yoro, Honduras. The model involves the combination of Integrated Open Canopy™ (IOC™) and the proposed scale-up Off-Grid Carbon-Neutral coffee processing in support of forest protection and restoration at a landscape level throughout the coffee regions of the Yoro Biological Corridor.
More information:
www.yorobiologicalcorridor.org
www.merchantsofgreencoffee.com
www.mesoamerican.org
Contact:
Meagan Thibeault
Communications Director, Merchants of Green Coffee
press@merchantsofgreencoffee.com
Quotes available on request from Merchants of Green Coffee, and partners listed.