Hand-in-hand with indigenous and other local people, we apply the power of innovation and time-tested traditional practices to protect the forests and watersheds of tropical America.
Accomplishments by the numbers
0
years inexistence
0
million acres of indigenous reserve expansions and creation0
partnercommunities
Visit our collection of storytelling maps:
Learn more about the areas we work in, how we partner with local communities and what we do to protect the rain forest.
Legalization of Indigenous Territories in Colombia
Advances in the Consolidation of Biocultural Corridors.
Keeng Kumu: Indigenous Cartographer
The life and travels of an indigenous mapping expert
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
Explore magical landscapes and indigenous cultures of the Amazon.
Amazon Gold Rush: Gold Mining in Suriname
Learn about impacts of Suriname's primary driver of deforestation.
What We Experience When We Walk Through the Mountains
What We Experience When We Walk Through the Mountains by María Fernanda Franco, Putumayo Process, ACT-Colombia Each time I have returned ...
Read More 
Amazon fires jeopardize indigenous tribes living without contact with the world
Amazon fires jeopardize indigenous tribes living without contact with the world Article originally published in Revista Semana, September 18, 2019 ...
Read More 
From the Amazon to the Great Lakes: Sharing Knowledge and Mapping Oral Histories with First Nations Communities in Canada
For many communities across the world, like the indigenous communities of the Americas, oral history storytelling is a cultural tradition ...
Read More