Rainforest Trust supports local grassroots organisations and communities to secure land rights and formally establish community-managed Regional Protected Areas. It then works with these communities to create sound management plans for these newly protected areas and develop new sources of sustainable income. Cartier for Nature supports two such initiatives in the Peruvian Andes. One in Toldopampa, where the local Huanca community is working to bring 130,000 acres of cloud forest under protection, and one in northern Huánuco, where two conservation areas covering more than 600,000 acres will be established thanks to the efforts of local communities. In addition to safeguarding traditional indigenous ways of life and local biodiversity, these protected areas will also lock up more than 100,000 metric tons of carbon.