our why’s:
We bring different perspectives to the table, but the core of Silvaes leadership is rooted in the heartbeat of the forest. Silvaes co-founders have both spent years immersed in remote, wild territories across Latin America. Most notably, they share a longterm, trust-based collaboration with the Huni Kuin and other indigenous communities in Acre, Brazil. Read more about this project called Sãkatani Alliance.
Why We Exist: To prove that human life can thrive in perfect, unbroken synchronisation with the natural world.
Why We Build: To leave a permanent legacy of self-sustaining freedom and open-source resilience for generations to come.
Jenny Hviding
Jenny Hviding is a freelance artist and founder of Casa Azul, working across international socio-political and fine art projects, centering her career on nature reconnection and land-based research. She is dedicated to creating intersectional, intercultural platforms where matriarchy, art and ancestral traditions meet— fostering slow-paced efficiency, self-sustainability and local sovereignty.
As the co-founder of Sãkatani and Silvae, Jenny initiates projects to preserve and regenerate ecosystems and traditions, prioritising local leadership, deep listening and mutual respect. Her extensive leadership experience includes co-founding a cultural center in Barcelona, running the K4 video gallery in Oslo, and launching her traveling culture house, Casa Azul, in 2021.
Deeply shaped by years spent in remote wild areas—including Norway’s forests, the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest, and Northeast Brazil—Jenny has immersed herself in Capoeira, agroforestry, bio-construction and Indigenous cultures, specifically studying with the Huni Kuin. Today, she divides her time between the jungles of Brazil and the forests of Europe. Her multidisciplinary practice spans fine art, storytelling, regenerative energy, sintropics, permaculture and traditional knowledge systems.
She wants to facilitate, uplift and aid structures, so that the guardians of the forest can shine, bloom, prosper and live in the forests, with dignity and possibilities. In harmony with nature and within their communities. In safe territories that can live for generations.
Haux Haux
Co-Founder. AD, Social Media, cultural and arts department 
Artur Moustafa
Artur has been engaged for more than a decade in long-term, trust-based collaboration with Indigenous Huni Kuin communities in Acre, Brazil. His involvement is rooted in listening, presence, and a shared commitment to supporting Indigenous autonomy, land stewardship, food security, self-sufficiency and regenerative ways of living.
Artur’s work sits at the intersection of regenerative systems design, sustainable food and building systems and participatory processes that place local communities at the center of decision-making. He has spent over 20 years working with projects focused on resilience, self-sufficiency, grass root level based design methodologies and ecological regeneration across Latin America, Europe and the Nordic region specifically where he lives.
Artur has worked with the development of regenerative production systems, community-based decision models and low-impact construction approaches using local materials. His approach is practical and systems-oriented, with a strong emphasis on creating solutions that can be owned, maintained, and adapted locally over time.
Artur’s role within Sãkatani and Silvae is to help bridge Indigenous leadership, local partners, and international supporters, ensuring that projects are built on consent, transparency, and long-term accountability. His work is guided by a belief that regeneration is not something done to communities, but something built with them, over time, through trust and shared responsibility.
Co-founder
System developer, regenerative expert
Martin Bull
Cacao expert and entrepreneur, board memberMartin Bull is the founder of Myrvann Cacao in Norway, and works at the meeting point between specialty cacao and the regeneration of the Amazon.
He carries one conviction at the centre of his work: the Amazonian ecosystem is the most important part of terrestrial life on Earth. Everything else follows from that. His relationship with the forest is not academic — it began when he sailed alone from Norway to Brazil and first met cacao as a living plant in standing forest, near Belém, rather than as a product on a shelf. What he saw alongside that abundance — overfished rivers, pollution, eroding livelihoods — left him certain that the forest has to be worth more standing than cleared, and that the people who live with it have to be the ones who benefit.
Over years of travel to numerous cacao farms across Brazil and Venezuela, Martin has built an extensive network spanning the specialty-cacao worlds of both Europe and Brazil. That bridge is his essential contribution: he can connect the people under the canopy in the Amazon to the people who value, and pay for, what grows there. It is this expertise — cacao as a tool for reforestation — that he brings to the projects led through Silvae and the Sakatani Alliance, where shade-grown cacao becomes a way to make regenerating forest economically alive rather than a sacrifice.
Myrvann Cacao is the platform he has built over the past years as the first step in this mission. More than a brand, it is the channel through which he invites customers into the world of the rainforest — letting a cup of cacao in the North become a real, transparent link to a living forest and its communities in the tropics. The larger vision — restoring degraded forest with cacao as the catalyst, in partnership with Ribeirinho and Indigenous communities including the Huni Kuin — grows directly out of this foundation.
Partners
S3C - Sustainable Community Component Catalogue AB
FiberTech International AB
Myvann - Cacao entrepeneur
Casa Azul: A traveling culture house reclaiming our ancient blueprint through ancestral art, neurophysiological grounding and regenerative eco-tourism."
Communities for Nature - “We match communities at the front line of conservation with forward-thinking corporate supports to build a more sustainable future for all.”
Contact Silvae
We invite scholars, artists, scientists, and experts in agriculture and socio-economic development to collaborate with us and the communities, in a respectful, co-creative manner— always ensuring that Indigenous voices lead the way and are heard.
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