With funding provided by USAID, nonprofit Forest Trends worked with Greenpoint Innovations (GPI) to produce a short documentary film, “Stewards of the Forest”, about how successful partnerships among environmental and indigenous organizations - featuring the Yawanawa people of Acre, Brazil - have led to more secure human rights, improvements in the livelihoods of indigenous and traditional communities, increased capacity of sub-national governments to develop low-emissions rural development policies and programs, and protection against risks of deforestation.
As a component of this production, GPI joined Forest Trends’ Communities Initiative for a visit to the Yawanawa people's Indigenous Territory on the Gregorio River in the State of Acre, where the initiative has been working to build the capacity of the Yawanawa people for the integrated management and conservation of their 187,000 ha forest territory.