Bohio Cibanani
$15,000  Willamette Valley, West Cascades Ecoregions  Addresses drought

Bohio Cibanani is a 501 (c) 3 organization devoted to the preservation and recuperation of Caribbean Afro- Indigenous ancestral knowledges, traditions and practices. With the Forest & Water Conservation Initiative, we seek to work with our BIPOC communities to restore the health of a 5 acre forest that includes an untended spring connected to the Cascade watershed; old-growth hazel and oak groves; and a conifer forest. Funding will enable our BIPOC communities to gather and learn about the process of water restoration as we restore the spring. We will work with our community to repopulate the oak groves, tend to the hazel and foster plant diversity along the forest floor. Throughout the process, we will foster traditional Afro-Indigenous forest and wildlife conservation knowledge and practices.