The Mentawai Future: Native Planet Works

Fighting back to support the Mentawai
Unregulated tourism and logging, combined with the devastating effects of relocation programs, are taking a huge toll on Mentawai health, welfare, culture and traditions. Native Planet is dedicated to helping the Mentawai preserve their culture and human rights, and to giving them a choice to decide which aspects (if any) of modern society they want to embrace.

Explore our Uma Project to help the traditional clans who wish to move out of government villages and back to their ancestral lands.

See how our Cultural Ecotourism Project protects the remaining traditional culture and reinforces cultural pride while offering a viable economic alternative to deforestation and positive employment to young Mentawai graduates.

Read more about what we're doing to help the Mentawai, and then lend a hand!