The area protected by the ~8,000 Kayapó is roughly equal in size to Portugal or South Korea. This area is comprised mostly of primary forest interspersed with a few patches of naturally occurring savana growing on Brazilian shield bedrock. Kayapo territory is a biodiversity paradise providing sufficient size habitat for sensitive species which are threatened or extirpated in other areas including; white lipped peccary, tapir, giant armadillo, giant otter, giant anteater, jaguar, hyacinth macaw, harpy eagle, white whiskered spider monkey and saki monkey.

Kayapo.org and GainForest hope to leverage green technology into support for protection of the last large block of forest surviving in the South Eastern Amazon, a lawless region of high deforestation. The pilot project will be launched in partnership with local Kayapo non-governmental organization (NGO) “Coletivo Beture Cineastas Mẽbêngôkre (CBCM)”, an organization of young Kayapo cinematographers using film to strengthen protection of their culture and the great forests upon which their culture is based.

Before environmental NGO partner allies arrived on the scene in 2000, the process of invasion and corruption of Kayapo leaders by illegal loggers and goldminers was already well underway in a band of territory spanning approximately 1.2 million hectares (3 million acres) along the eastern border.  These eastern Kayapo communities were lured into the clutches of destructive forces before 2000 and, therefore, never allied with the environmental movement. The difference in territorial and cultural protection outcomes between those that allied with environmental NGOs and receive outside support and those that did not is stark.

"The Kayapo people perform an incredible and vital service for the planet by demonstrating that the forces of greed and corruption rampant throughout the Brazilian Amazon can be defeated and large areas of forest protected. The Kayapo rely on outside support to continue winning. Green tech would be a welcome and potentially significant contribution to the cause" says Barbara Zimmerman, Director of the Kayapo Project.

"The Kayapo rely on outside support to continue winning. Green tech would be a welcome and potentially significant contribution to the cause"  Barbara Zimmerman, Director of the Kayapo Project
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Donations to GainForest will be directed to the Coletivo Beture and will be used to help young Kayapo access training and opportunities for documenting and energizing their traditional culture through film -an indigenous culture that against all odds has managed to hold at bay the forces of forest destruction over what is by far the largest tract of tropical forest in the world with some form of official protected status (a ratified indigenous territory). Kayapo culture and forest protection are linked inextricably and indigenous filmmakers are vital to the cause. To facilitate forest monitoring and capture of images for donations/purchases, GainForest will donate drone and wildcams to C. Beture.

Donors to Gainforest will receive a unique non-fungible token called an NFTree^TM, that is an original digital photo of trees, wildlife or other ecological features protected by the Kayapo. GainForest uses the low-energy proof-of-stake cryptocurrency platform Solana to verify the NFTrees it issues. A single transaction on Solana uses 0.00051 kWh of energy, the equivalent of a single Google search.