The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with indigenous peoples and other local communities to protect the forests of tropical South America. ACT’s vision is for the vast, life-sustaining rainforests of tropical South America to be preserved and protected in perpetuity, and believes that strengthening, empowering, and working with rainforest people and their cultures is the most enduring route to that future.
Since its origin, ACT has recognized that lasting change requires a long-term, on-the-ground commitment. Over the course of 22 years, ACT has been privileged to work with more than 70 indigenous and rainforest peoples. Currently, it focuses the majority of its efforts in the northeast Amazon (particularly Suriname), the northwest Amazon (primarily Colombia), and the southeast Amazon (Brazil), where it has a long history and excellent relationships with local communities.
Through its three-pronged strategic approach to conservation summarized below, focusing on land, livelihoods, and governance, ACT will work under the Initiative 20x20 to attain the coalition’s goals:
- Promote Sustainable Land and Resource Management:
- Ensures the protection, stewardship and recovery of prioritized landscapes, including the biodiversity and natural resources they encompass.
- Strengthen Communities’ Internal Governance and Traditions:
- Increases the self-determination of partner communities.
- Promote Communities’ Secure and Sustainable Livelihoods:
- Improves the local economy and livelihood conditions within partner communities through environmentally and socially sustainable means.
Country
Colombia
The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with indigenous peoples and other local communities to protect the forests of tropical South America. ACT’s vision is for the vast, life-sustaining rainforests of tropical South America to be preserved and protected in perpetuity, and believes that strengthening, empowering, and working with rainforest people and their cultures is the most enduring route to that future.
Since its origin, ACT has recognized that lasting change requires a long-term, on-the-ground commitment. Over the course of 22 years, ACT has been privileged to work with more than 70 indigenous and rainforest peoples. Currently, it focuses the majority of its efforts in the northeast Amazon (particularly Suriname), the northwest Amazon (primarily Colombia), and the southeast Amazon (Brazil), where it has a long history and excellent relationships with local communities.
Through its three-pronged strategic approach to conservation summarized below, focusing on land, livelihoods, and governance, ACT will work under the Initiative 20x20 to attain the coalition’s goals:
- Promote Sustainable Land and Resource Management:
- Ensures the protection, stewardship and recovery of prioritized landscapes, including the biodiversity and natural resources they encompass.
- Strengthen Communities’ Internal Governance and Traditions:
- Increases the self-determination of partner communities.
- Promote Communities’ Secure and Sustainable Livelihoods:
- Improves the local economy and livelihood conditions within partner communities through environmentally and socially sustainable means.
Country
Colombia
