Launching of the first indigenous park guard training course in the northeast Amazon. ACT has instituted the first indigenous park…
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Comprehensive, long-term sustainable management plans for the Suruí people. In the western Brazilian Amazon, ACT helped the Suruí people develop…
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Supporting and empowering women healers. In Colombia, ACT supported the creation and continues to sponsor the operations of the first…
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ACT designs programs specifically to support the health of our indigenous partners because the degree to which our partners enjoy…
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The survival of the Amazon has great ramifications for life across the planet. A healthy and intact Amazon forest will…
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Modernity has brought with it swift and abrupt changes to the cultures of traditional indigenous communities, and has historically left…
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The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) protects the rainforest by working in close partnership with indigenous peoples. Our approach combines idealism,…
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The mapping of indigenous lands has been one of ACT’s most powerful tools in conserving the Amazon rainforest in partnership…
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The Amazon Conservation Team seeks to steadily increase the number of indigenous peoples in Amazonia able to monitor, sustainably manage…
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In Sibundoy, the ancestral territory of the Kamentsa and Inga indigenous people, both the elders and lands that sustain traditional knowledge are disappearing. To keep pace with climate change, globalization and the region’s mining development, local groups are banding together to record this information before it disappears.
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