Strengthening solidarity and trust between forests, community rights and climate defenders.
Our ecosystems are facing devastating attacks that only concerted, joint work from environmental defenders can beat.
Bringing together 80 people from across the world to discuss their personal experiences, struggles, and hopes, will help us find common ground and create the foundation for long-term cooperation.
By exchanging diverse perspectives this meeting will help us move past organisational agendas and find innovative and actionable solutions that ripple outward for decades to come.
Heal the Earth, protect the forests and the people, ensure the future.
ABOUT US
We are forest protectors from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, coming from diverse cultural backgrounds and utilising a variety of strategic approaches. The meeting is organised by BLESS Foundation (Indonesia), CIAI (Latin-America), Fern (EU), IDEF (Côte d’Ivoire), Mídia NINJA & Climax (Brazil), and TINTA (Global).
TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES
The P4F focuses on the cultural and healing practices that can solve the urgent threats to the world’s forests, it will kick-start collective action by turning diverse priorities into unified visions, without losing focus of the importance of #Culture, #Healing, and strategic global #advocacy.
AGENDA
AGENDA
We’ll create a shared space where activists and organizations from diverse backgrounds can exchange experiences and build paths forward. A collaborative agenda, guided by 4 strategic axes, will allow all voices to be heard, valued, and part of the process.
EDUCATION
Learning rooted in ancestral knowledge, cultural memory, contemporary knowledge and community values. A pathway to healing, empowerment, and sustaining life.
Communication
Storytelling as a tool for resistance and imagination. It connects struggles, shifts narratives, and builds power to dream, mobilize, and transform realities together.
Economy
Integrating sustainable and regenerative economic practices across sectors to support community autonomy, environmental balance, and long-term resilience.
Politics
Strategic advocacy and networking to influence policy and governance, grow the collective power of communities, and build alliances for global solidarity.
