NEWS
Update on the Daime Eterno Project May 2026
Dear friends and supporters,
I would like to share an update on the Daime Eterno Project.
Over the past few weeks, we temporarily paused the construction of our new Casa de Feitio furnace. With the return of the rains here in the Juruá Valley, our community took advantage of this important season to focus on planting the seedlings produced in our nurseries, including cacao, native species, and trees dedicated to reforestation efforts.
We are very happy to see thousands of seedlings returning to the earth and contributing to a stronger future for both the forest and the communities that call it home.
We were also blessed to welcome five new members to the Daime Eterno Project. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to each person who has chosen to walk this path with us. Your support strengthens not only our community but also a project designed to create lasting social, environmental, and cultural benefits for present and future generations.
Many people ask whether it is worth supporting this work. My answer is simple: absolutely.
Every contribution helps preserve the forest, strengthen traditional communities, protect ancestral knowledge, and expand reforestation and regenerative initiatives.
If you have visited us before, perhaps you planted a seedling—or even a vine—with your own hands. Today, you can continue helping to care for that legacy and watch it grow for years to come.
And even if you are unable to contribute financially at this moment, sharing our website, social media pages, and campaigns is already a meaningful way to help.
To everyone who walks alongside us, I offer my deepest gratitude.
🤝 Join this movement of regeneration, preservation, and hope.
💚 Support the project:
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With gratitude,
Davi Nunes
President, IDAAM
NEWS
IDAAM and Yawanawa Association: Together for Reforestation and Cultural Preservation
On July 9, 2024, technicians from IDAAM (Amazon Institute for Socio-Environmental Development), in partnership with ASCY (Yawanawa Sociocultural Association), visited the Yawatxivan village, in the Rio Gregório Indigenous Land, to deliver 1,500 Banisteriopsis caapi (jagube vine) seedlings. The event mobilized the community, including men, women, and children, who participated in the first stage of reforestation of the Yawanawá territory with the so-called “power plants”. In this phase, the vine seedlings were transplanted from the nursery to the seedling bags. The entire process was supervised by Agricultural Engineer Suzana Farias and the Field Coordinator, Mr. Jorgian Nascimento (Kó).
This action is part of the Ayahuasca Cultural and Environmental Development Project: Eternal Daime - Amazon, coordinated by IDAAM in partnership with other institutions.
The goal is to promote participatory development in ten communities linked to the Institute, investing in the sustainable cultivation of the Psychotria viridis and Banisteriopsis caapi species to ensure the responsible use of Ayahuasca. The project also aims to raise awareness about environmental preservation and promote food security through agroforestry systems, fish farming, poultry farming, horticulture, crafts and community-based tourism.
The president of the Institute, Davi de Paula, highlighted that the project will address important gaps related to the sustainable use of Ayahuasca for future generations.
Chief Tashka Peshaho Yawanawá emphasized the importance of this project: (...) we are very happy because we are receiving Davi's team here, who came to our home to support us through the Ayahuasca project: Daime Eterno. It is a pioneering idea that will revolutionize. It is the domesticated use of our sacred medicine. (...)
Indigenous peoples are being reborn from the ashes in the 21st century, with all their energy dedicated to the ayahuasca culture, to the UNI culture. This is very good, and we cannot use it and take everything we have from the forest. We have to give back what the forest gave us. This project here is interesting because it directly and indirectly adds cultural value, spiritual value, environmental value in preservation and in planting more different species that support our ceremony.
