Mongabay: Suriname will not be saved by soybeans (commentary)

June 22, 2026

In a new commentary for Mongabay, Dr. Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and President of the Amazon Conservation Team, argues that large-scale…

ACT Featured in Podcast Series on the People and Forces Shaping the Amazon 

May 20, 2026

Staff from the Amazon Conservation Team are featured across multiple episodes of Rewilding Amazonia, an eight-part investigative podcast series from Rewildology examining what…

Dr. Mark Plotkin Speaks to WWLTV on Indigenous Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Research

April 27, 2026

As a new executive order fast-tracks psychedelic research for veteran mental health treatment, WWLTV turned to Dr. Mark Plotkin, co-founder…

Esri highlights ACT mapping work with Indigenous communities

April 3, 2026

The Amazon Conservation Team works closely with Indigenous communities to create cultural maps that record and preserve traditional knowledge and…

Oceanography Podcast: Biocultural Coastal Conservation with Ancestral Tides

March 24, 2026

Juan Carlos Cruz, Manager of Science and Conservation with the Amazon Conservation Team’s Ancestral Tides initiative, recently joined the Oceanography…

The Annulment of Decree 1500: What is at Stake for the Indigenous Peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

February 25, 2026

February 20, 2026 The original article published in Spanish by La Silla Vacia can be found here. Written by Juana…

Top ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin’s COP30 reflections on Amazon conservation (analysis)

November 18, 2025

As the world gathers for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Dr. Mark Plotkin, co-founder and president of the Amazon Conservation Team,…

Solving the problems of the Amazon will require serious commitments at COP30

November 12, 2025

Carolina Gil, regional director for the Amazon Conservation Team, wrote the following op-ed, published in the Colombian digital news outlet…

Mongabay: Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

October 15, 2025

Mongabay, an independent environmental news organization, recently highlighted two communities in the Colombian Amazon, who are working to protect the…

From Bogotá to Belém: What’s at stake for the future of the Amazon

August 28, 2025

Carolina Gil, Regional Director of the Amazon Conservation Team Colombia authored this op-ed, published August 27, 2025 in El Espectador,…

Ancient Myths Proven to Help Environmental Protection

November 2, 2012

In a speech delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Brazil, Ashley Massey, a researcher from Oxford University, recently explained that certain cultural beliefs are in fact beneficial to the well-being of the natural world, especially when it comes to keeping some forest areas safe from harm.

Jeff Skoll's Billion-Dollar Plan To Save The World

September 18, 2012

Four years ago Jeff Skoll arrived via small plane in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon region, just in time…

Isolated Indigenous Communities and the Mining Industry

August 2, 2012

Colombian society is wonderful and yet violent, contradictory and uneven. Every day, we are amazed by stories, events and realities that make Macondo just one of multiple fantastic realities. Within a week, many more amazing events occur here than in half a century in Sweden. One of those wonderful and amazing stories of our current society was presented to us by Roberto Franco on August 21st in the Bogotá Botanical Garden.

On the Trail of Sweet Temptation

June 2, 2012

Unterschleissheim – A five-member delegation traveled to Colombia to track the harvest of cocoa beans for their “town chocolate.” They wanted to gain knowledge on cocoa beans and fair trade. And so, they traveled on an adventure. The five-member Unterschleißheim delegation has experienced a lot during their visit to southern Colombia, near the Alto Fragua Indi Wasi National Park.