Restoration of the Bolivian Amazon
With experience as an investor and entrepreneur in diverse industries, Ursula Pero wants to help restore the Bolivian Amazon. To raise awareness about biodiversity, she founded a non-profit. To scale soil and forest restoration, she started a company. Biodiversity Allies aims to protect and restore plant and fungal biodiversity through community resiliency, food security, and natural resource conservation. The organization develops networks, facilitates knowledge exchange, and builds biodiversity databases. As a startup venture, Land for Good is consolidating land portfolios in Bolivia and Paraguay, transitioning soy monocultures to agroforestry, and reversing desertification across over 100,000 hectares. What would it take to fully restore the Bolivian Amazon? What is the status of land tenure in Bolivia? What mix of nitrogen fixing plant species, mycorrhizal fungi, and fruit trees will be commercially viable? Join us to meet Ursula, learn the answers to these questions, and more. References: The Land Foundation (land tenure), PROBIOMA (environment), and CEDIB (human rights).
