Posts by Amazon Conservation Team
Indigenous Land Management
Comprehensive, long-term sustainable management plans for the Suruí people. In the western Brazilian Amazon, ACT helped the Suruí people develop a comprehensive sustainable management plan for some of the most threatened forests in the Amazon.
Read MoreWomen's Programs
Supporting and empowering women healers. In Colombia, ACT supported the creation and continues to sponsor the operations of the first network of women shamans in the entire northwest Amazon. ACT built a dedicated center for their use that can accommodate 90 individuals for overnight stays.
Read MoreHealth
ACT designs programs specifically to support the health of our indigenous partners because the degree to which our partners enjoy good health determines the level of their ability to sustain themselves and to conserve their lands and culture. ACT’s healthcare promotion programs operate at two levels: we seek to provide access to healthcare in our…
Read MoreBiodiversity
The survival of the Amazon has great ramifications for life across the planet. A healthy and intact Amazon forest will help stabilize the climate patterns on which world economies and ecosystems depend, and will continue to serve as the planet’s greatest storehouse of biodiversity, sheltering a vast array of species of potentially profound value to…
Read MoreCulture
Modernity has brought with it swift and abrupt changes to the cultures of traditional indigenous communities, and has historically left a wake of both environmental and cultural destruction across the Amazon. ACT has observed that in the Amazon, environmental health is often proportional to the strength of indigenous culture. ACT’s cultural programs, in tandem with…
Read MoreOur Success
The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) protects the rainforest by working in close partnership with indigenous peoples. Our approach combines idealism, innovation, tradition, science, spirituality and social entrepreneurship. 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…
Read MoreOur Strategy
The mapping of indigenous lands has been one of ACT’s most powerful tools in conserving the Amazon rainforest in partnership with indigenous peoples. Very often, ACT’s strategy for the conservation of indigenous lands begins with the generation of a detailed “ethnographic” map that clearly demarcates the region claimed by indigenous groups as their ancestral territory;…
Read MoreOur Goals
The Amazon Conservation Team seeks to steadily increase the number of indigenous peoples in Amazonia able to monitor, sustainably manage and protect their traditional forestlands, and by extension significantly increase the area of Amazonian rainforest enjoying considerably improved protection.
Read MoreACT and the Kogi Purchase Second Sacred Site
ACT raised funds to purchase a 70-acre property next to Jaba Taniwashkaka—the first Kogi coastal sacred site we acquired and protected in 2013, preventing its purchase by developers who had preliminary plans to build a large resort and marina there.
Read MoreYachaikury Prepares for a Facelift
Yachaikury—the ACT-sponsored ethnoeducation school of the Inga people—may soon be funded by the government for its master architectural plan. By improving dormitories, classrooms and bathrooms, Yachaikury will become an even better place for children to live and learn.
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