ACT Annual Reports — The Amazon Conservation Team

2010 Annual Report

How to Lead. When to Follow.

Since 1996, the year the Amazon Conservation Team was founded, conservation has changed. Fifteen years ago, conserving land meant buying land. Today, everyone recognizes that people are crucial to sustainable success, indigenous people perhaps most of all. Fifteen years ago, conservation was done mostly at arm’s length in a “top-down” model virtually deaf to local needs and issues. Today, conservation always involves capacity building among local populations.

2009 Annual Report

Many Voices One Story

"The many voices of the Amazon are joining in a global call to arms in defense of the endangered rainforest and the indigenous people who call it home. This is their story."

2008 Annual Report

Amazon 2.0

"We are entering a new era in the Amazon, and it calls for a new kind of environmentalism--one that is entrepreneurial, effective, innovative, and bold."

	2007 Annual Report Measurable Success in the Amazon Rainforest Our Google collaboration is characteristic of ACT's many successes: bringing unlikely partners together and creating alliances that no one had previously envisioned.
	2006 Annual Report Something unexpected is coming out of the rainforest...Good News! "In a soaking downpour in a remote village in Suriname, at a lopsided table under a thatched roof, surrounded by Trio Indians who are comparing notes on the best way to use a GPS device — the last thing I feel is “trendy.” But there can be no doubt: our work in this region has helped ignite an international movement."
	2005 Annual Report lt Celebrating 10 Years of Conservation Successes As we at ACT look back on a decade of work, we credit our enormous success to our deeply collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to conservation. As our indigenous partners gradually become empowered to take control of their own environmental and cultural destiny, they have proven themselves to be determined defenders of their territories.
	2004 Annual Report Protecting the Future, Preserving the Past ACT has devoted considerable energy to helping our indigenous partners map their lands as a necessary precursor to better management and protection. Modern technology is often portrayed as a destroyer of the land and culture of indigenous peoples, but ACT’s approach defies this formula.
	2003 Annual Report At the ripe old age of eight, ACT is truly thriving At the World Parks Conference in Durban, South Africa, a conference that convenes only once a decade, ACT’s work with the UMIYAC indigenous association and the creation of the Alto Fragua Indi Wasi National Park was highlighted as one of the most progressive and promising conservation initiatives.