Become a Member

What is a Membership with Camino Verde?

Your monthly or annual contributions are the bedrock that keeps our programs stable and running smoothly. Members are key partners in realizing CV’s mission and receive more than the satisfaction of contributing – they receive an annual Members-only biannual newsletter, species report and a digital badge to be displayed with pride on social media or your company’s webpage.

Membership tiers

Our membership tiers are named after some of our favorite Amazonian plant species. Find out more about what makes these plants great –and what each membership level’s contribution allows us to do– right here…

Monthly Membership Tiers

Ajosacha (Mansoa alliacea) - Ruby Membership

$100 /month – Our base tier of member support. Over the course of a year of membership, your contribution allows us to provide tree seedlings and agroforestry know how to one additional family participating in our tree-planting farmer network in the Peruvian Amazon.

A medicinal vine whose leaves are prepared as tea to fortify one’s defenses, ajosacha (“garlic plant”) is from the botanical family Bignoniaceae. Despite what its vining growth habit might imply, as a woody liana ajosacha is more closely related to trees than to brambles.

Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) - Emerald Membership

$1,000 /month – Second-year Emerald members can speak directly with the CV leadership on an annual call and are invited to schedule a personalized visit to Camino Verde’s reforestation centers in Peru. Your contribution covers the base salary of one of Camino Verde’s area coordinators (of which there are currently five). Each coordinator is a leader of a team of agroforestry technicians at one of CV’s centers, and they are lynch pin players who keep our programs operating efficiently.

A tree species that launched a thousand forced expeditions into the rainforest, Brazilian rosewood or palo rosa was over-harvested to the point of endangerment in the last century. Its beautiful scent, originally an ingredient in Chanel No. 5, now also motivates the species’ reforestation in native communities where rosewood was once found.

Abuta Vine (Cissampelos pareira) - Silver Membership

$1,000 /year – Your contribution allows us to reforest a hectare of deforested land in the Peruvian Amazon with dozens of species of native trees. Camino Verde is actively regenerating degraded areas of the Amazon thanks to you.

Abuta is the name in Peru for a medicinal vine whose inner bark has a uniquely bitter taste making this woody liana easy to identify. Used to treat a variety of bodily complaints, the grated vine is boiled to a dark green liquid that is consumed daily over weeks with strict associated dietary requirements. Abuta is a beautiful vine found in primary forests throughout the region of Madre de Dios, Peru.

Açaí Palm (Euterpe oleracea) - Gold Membership

$5,000 /year – Second-year Gold members are invited to schedule a personalized visit to Camino Verde’s reforestation centers in Peru. Over the course of a year of membership, your contribution allows us to fully supply one of our native species tree nurseries in the Peruvian Amazon. Producing an average of 125 tree species a year, our 3 nurseries are an active strategy to preserve Amazonian biodiversity due to your support.

One of the most nutritionally and economically important trees of the Amazon, açaí is a clumping palm tree that is found in wetlands, villages, and plantations throughout the Amazon basin. Its anti-oxidant- and oil-rich fruits are harvested over most of the year over a vast area of the continent, feeding the mega-cities of the coast of Brazil.

Brazil-Nut Tree (Bertholletia excelsa) - Platinum Membership

$10,000 /year – Second-year Platinum members can speak directly with the CV leadership on an annual call and are invited to schedule a personalized visit to Camino Verde’s reforestation centers in Peru. Over the course of a year of membership, your contribution allows us to provide tree seedlings and agroforestry know how to one additional entire community or farmer association participating in our tree-planting farmer network in the Peruvian Amazon.

Emergent trees are the ones growing up above the canopy trees. In the Peruvian Amazon, one important emergent tree species is the Brazil-nut, locally known as castaña. A true keystone species ecologically and economically speaking, the native range of the species is limited to one small region of southwestern Amazonia. This huge tree feeds a variety of mammals and is a pillar of the regional economy.