Where we are
To understand the work, it helps to understand the place.
The place
La Mosquitia sits in the northeastern corner of Honduras, on the Caribbean coast, cut off from the rest of the country by jungle. It's one of the most remote places in Central America. To reach the project you fly in on a small bush plane and then continue for hours by road, across bridges and tracks that look like nothing you've seen before.
This region holds some of Honduras's last significant forest. But centuries of logging and yearly fires have turned large areas of Caribbean pine forest into savanna where young trees can no longer grow. The land that once supported people, through hunting, fishing and gathering, has slowly turned against them.
The people
La Mosquitia is home to Indigenous Miskito communities, and it's one of the most disadvantaged regions in Central America. More than 90% of people here live below the poverty line, depending on the land through hunting, fishing and small-scale farming. As the climate shifts and extreme weather hits harder, that dependence leaves them exposed.
Our work pairs ecological restoration with real local economic opportunity: protecting forest, creating paid jobs, and helping families build more secure livelihoods. The communities own this land and its carbon rights. We work with them as partners, landholders and decision-makers, not as beneficiaries of a plan made somewhere else.
“There's no fish, no deer, no money, and no medication.”
Pastor Gabriel, Tipi
How we got here
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The beginning
A conversation with co-founder Magnus Bergström
Paskaia began in 2019, not as an idea brought in from outside, but as a request. Our founders had spent more than twenty years working on reforestation in Honduras. The Miskito communities came to them with a question: can you help us bring our forest back? That question is the whole project.
“From day one, we built this around the Miskito's own systems. They set the priorities and lead the work on the ground.”