To Honor, The People in the Present.
The Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund (IMC) was formed in direct response to urgent requests from leaders in some of the most important territories on earth. Supporting Indigenous traditional knowledge-holding communities is a frontline defense for climate and biodiversity protection. The Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund (IMC) is led by a council of spiritual and community leaders who direct financial and technical support to biocultural conservation efforts of medicine communities in Africa, South America, Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
These territories and communities are experiencing increased encroachment from many factors including pressures of the psychedelic renaissance added to the existing pressures from the energy industry, agriculture, timber industry, mining, poaching, and armed conflict.
IMC Leadership and decision-making are firmly rooted in the territories through representation by community leaders from grassroots organizations who are also recipients of funds and technical support. There is no intermediary in the direction of funds, analysis of assessments, and setting priorities. Leadership from the territories through directing education on the right relationship between global funders and growing psychedelic interests, which is on the verge of becoming another extractive industry of traditional indigenous medicines and culture. This type of leadership by partners is an entirely new paradigm for trust between Western and indigenous entities.
IMC is specifically focused on communities with a traditional indigenous medicine heritage, where keystone medicine, such as Iboga, Ayahuasca, Peyote (Husi), Mushrooms, and Toads play an essential role in their way of life and community health. Strengthening and conserving indigenous spirituality and supporting their capacity to defend their rights, and territories, and define their harmonious living for the future. IMC Fund recognizes this capacity is directly tied to global goals of mitigating habitat and biodiversity loss and mitigating human-mediated climate issues.
Strengthening these traditional knowledge-holding communities through an indigenous-led model allows for the best outcomes for ecosystems and culture. It allows that traditional knowledge to direct philanthropic dollars and provide guidance based on millennia of tradition to today's issues.
All cash-honoring & sales benefits / honoring will go directly into the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund and then be shared between the IMC Fund & Sia which serve over 800 indigenous cultures. With this, the people can create on the ground restorative abundance for the Infrastructure of their ceremonial plants, animals & sacred lands of the people.