In partnership with local tribes and their associations, regional NGOs and government agencies, ACT currently seeks to effect biocultural conservation in a corridor located in its entirety north of the Amazon River, extending from the eastern edge of the state of 
Amazonas, through the state of Pará and up to the western edge of the state of Amapá, where it borders an Amapá-regional biological corridor that begins with the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park. ACT's activities in this expanse-which we collectively term the Karib Ethno-Environmental Conservation Corridor with reference to the joint language grouping of the resident communities-have to date covered four indigenous areas, a state forest, a state park, and a biological reserve. The corridor is anchored on its western edge by a two large indigenous reserves (Trombetas-Mapuera and Nhamunda-Mapuera) and on its eastern edge by two other large reserves (the Tumucumaque Indigenous Reserve and the Rio Paru d'Este Reserve). The area between these two indigenous poles is comprised of dense forest currently protected by several large protected areas. The four reserves cover a total of 9,276,906 hectares, while the nine protected areas encompass a total of 14,020,180 hectares.
The long-term objective of the corridor is to link lands including those previously mapped and surveyed by ACT in the northeastern Amazonian Tumucumaque region and a further set of indigenous territories, national and state forests, and biological reserves totaling some 70 million acres. The larger goal has been to provide the indigenous groups with the basis for the eventual autonomous protection of their lands and natural resources and for the strengthening of their communities and traditional culture. This has meant close partnering with the region's two most influential indigenous associations, APITIKATXI (Associação dos Povos Indígenas Tiriyó, Kaxuyana e Txikuyana) and APIM (Associação dos Povos Indígenas do Mapuera).
In 2010, working hand-in-hand with the Wai-Wai, Kaxuyana, Txikayana, Kahiyana and Tunayana communities and our NGO partner Kanindé, ACT completed land use mapping of over 25 million acres of the tribes' Amazonian lands. In the multi-month data collection phases, over 20 ACT-trained indigenous researchers met with elders, shamans, hunters and other tribal members across much of this vast extent. Subsequently, ACT and its local NGO partner Kanindé were contracted by the state of Pará to conduct extensive biological and social surveys of Wai-Wai lands for the purpose of properly zoning these lands as areas of indigenous use.
Selected Achievements
- In partnership with regional indigenous groups, ethnographic maps generated for over 25 million acres of rainforest lands, laying the essential groundwork for their eventual protection.
- In 2010, in Pará state, ACT and the indigenous association APITIKATXI led the first Brazilian indigenous park guard training course held outside of the state of Amapá.
