Our rainforests are in crisis. To reverse the harmful effects of global heating and restore vitality to the planet and its people, we need to start listening. Health In Harmony, a global team of doctors, nurses, scientists, and agriculturalists, partners with rainforest experts - local communities. Through a process called radical listening, the team garners insights into how best to affect ecosystems and public health to save the planet. “Radical listening is believing and knowing that communities know what is better for themselves instead of a colonial approach in which we dictate what we think is better,” says Érika Pellegrino, one of their medical coordinators. The method is working. So far, in Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, Health In Harmony has reduced illegal logging households by 90%, and protected over 8.7 million hectares of rainforest around the globe. Visit healthinharmony.org to learn more about the impact this initiative is making. Footage by Marcelo Salazar, Chelsea Call, Stephanie Gee, Hasina Manantsoa, and Health In Harmony was used in the creation of this film.
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