Frontline communities of Amazonia are fighting to protect their homelands and ways of life. In solidarity with partner communities, our rights-based approach expands indigenous territories, improves collective well-being, and promotes indigenous leadership.
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Learn more about the areas we work in, how we partner with local communities, and what we do to protect the rainforest.
Living Territories: Stories of Territorial Justice
Join the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) for stories of the ways in which our work to improve territorial rights is helping to empower communities to help manage and preserve some of the world’s most critical ecosystems.
Collective Rights Violated During the Pandemic
Cartography of 2017 cases of collective rights violations in six Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an analysis of how communities have defended their territories.
The Guiana Shield: One of the Last Wild Places on Earth
Learn about the importance of advancing the consolidation of a 30-million-hectare biocultural corridor across the eastern Guiana Shield, jointly managed by local communities and national governments.
25 Years of Biocultural Conservation: The Amazon Conservation Team's 25th Anniversary
For the last 25 years, ACT’s decisions have been guided by close consultation with our partner communities, particularly the elders, who have defined our priorities in the fight for ancestral land rights and protection.
Training Community Rangers to Protect the World’s Greenest Country
Ancestral Tides Annual Report
