Amazon Conservation Team

The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) protects the rainforest by working in close partnership with indigenous peoples. Our approach combines idealism, innovation, tradition, science, spirituality and social entrepreneurship. Within these larger measurements, we look to more specific outcomes such as the number of indigenous associations officially registered in their nations and granted governance rights, whether in… The mapping of indigenous lands has been one of ACT’s most powerful tools in conserving the Amazon rainforest in partnership with indigenous peoples. Very often, ACT’s strategy for the conservation of indigenous lands begins with the generation of a detailed “ethnographic” map that clearly demarcates the region claimed by indigenous groups as their ancestral territory;… The Amazon Conservation Team seeks to steadily increase the number of indigenous peoples in Amazonia able to monitor, sustainably manage and protect their traditional forestlands, and by extension significantly increase the area of Amazonian rainforest enjoying considerably improved protection.