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Dr. Mark Plotkin and Trio Indian colleagues, northeast Amazon |
Measuring Progress
As an organization that places its highest value on the conservation of high biodiversity landscapes and the strengthening of the sustainable traditional cultures that oversee them, ACT sees its primary metrics as being the number of Amazon indigenous groups better able to govern, manage and protect their ancestral lands, and the total area of land better monitored and protected by these groups. In each case, that number has risen steadily without interruption since ACT's inception. 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 part or full; the number of detailed land management and protection plans completed by these associations; the number of communities practicing improved land management; the number of indigenous persons trained and serving as "indigenous environmental agents" (local park rangers); and the number of indigenous persons trained to carry on ancestral medical practices transmitted by their tribal elders.
