4 Fädere Foundation

Protecting and Regenerating the Web of Life

Across forests, oceans, wildlife, culture, and community.

Humanity is part of a larger living family.

We support regenerative projects that protect living landscapes, preserve cultural wisdom, restore ecosystems, and strengthen communities in Peru and Costa Rica.

Indigenous woman smiling while tending plants in a lush forest garden
4 Fädere Foundation — the four feathers
The Foundation

The Four Feathers

Four feathers, four commitments — the living core of our work.

Green Feather
Green Feather

Environmental Regeneration

Restoring forests, reefs, soil, water, and the biodiversity that sustains all life.

Golden Feather
Golden Feather

Cultural Preservation

Safeguarding indigenous wisdom and the rich cultural heritage of the land.

Red Feather
Red Feather

Animal Protection

Protecting habitats and honoring the inherent dignity of all living beings.

Blue Feather
Blue Feather

Human Wellbeing

Supporting healthy communities, education, and the return to meaningful connection.

Our Founding Stories

Founding Stories of the Web of Life

Every place carries a story. Every story reveals a relationship worth restoring.

Kene Bari — regenerating the Amazon rainforest through teacher trees and native species
REGENERATIVE FOREST GARDEN • PERU
Regenerating the Forest

Kene Bari

What begins with a single tree can become a living forest. Kene Bari brings together indigenous wisdom and ecological stewardship to strengthen the living relationships that sustain the Amazon. Through the planting of teacher trees and native species, the forest is enriched for future generations of people, plants, and animals.

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Tierra Ancestral — preserving indigenous cultural wisdom and living traditions
WHERE RAINFOREST, OCEAN, AND MEMORY MEET
WHERE RAINFOREST, OCEAN, AND MEMORY MEET

Tierra Ancestral

Tierra Ancestral is rooted in a landscape where rainforest, ocean, and memory meet. By caring for the land and sea, restoring ecological relationships, and honoring the stories embedded within this place, we seek to pick up an ancient thread and weave it into the future.

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Our Philosophy

Biocracy

Life as the Guiding Principle

We believe that humanity thrives when we remember that we are part of a larger living community.

Biocracy is our name for a way of living, relating, and organizing society in which the flourishing of life becomes the guiding principle for human decisions.

A vision rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and belonging within the web of life.

Impact

Why this work matters

Behind every number, a forest, a reef, a family, a continuing story.

180Hectares of Living Landscape

Rainforest, reef, and coastal ecosystems held in protection across Peru and Costa Rica.

400+Teacher Trees Rooted

Medicinal and ecological species planted — a forest for the generations still to come.

700+People Reconnected to Nature

Visitors, volunteers, and students who returned home changed by the land.

14Years Beside Indigenous Families

Walking alongside Shipibo and Costa Rican stewards — honoring wisdom older than us.

Become Part of the
Regeneration

Support living landscapes where nature, culture, and community continue to thrive together. Walk with us — as a partner, not just a donor.

Belonging

Humanity is part of a larger living family.

Every act of restoration strengthens the web of life we all belong to.

Protecting forests, preserving cultural wisdom, restoring ecosystems, and supporting communities are not separate acts. They are threads in the same living web.

People

Faces of Regeneration

Regeneration is not built by projects alone. It lives through the people who carry knowledge, care for places, and help restore the relationship between humans and the living world.

Portrait of Rey Manu (Julio)
Peru

Rey Manu (Julio)

Keeper of Indigenous Plant Knowledge

For decades, Rey Manu has carried ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants, teacher trees, and the living intelligence of the Amazon rainforest. Through Kene Bari, he helps preserve and regenerate the plant knowledge passed down to him by his grandfather and through generations of Indigenous tradition, ensuring that this knowledge remains alive for the future.

Portrait of Montserrat
Costa Rica

Montserrat

Community Regeneration & Ecological Stewardship

Montserrat helps bridge people and place through hands-on ecological restoration, food growing, and community stewardship. Her work supports the daily care of living systems while creating opportunities for people to reconnect with nature through direct experience.

Portrait of Aum
Costa Rica

Aum

Human–Nature Relationship Guide

Aum explores the deeper relationships between human beings and the living world. His work focuses on restoring awareness that forests, animals, watersheds, and communities are not separate systems but expressions of one interconnected web of life. Through education, dialogue, and lived experience, he helps people rediscover their place within nature.