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,…

French humanitarian operation for indigenous Surinamese

July 11, 2020

July 11, 2020 – Publication: StarNieuws France has donated 280 aid packages totaling some 4,000 kg of food and basic…

Virus Hunters in the Amazon

July 1, 2020

June 27, 2020 by Adriana Diaz – Universidad de los Andes-Colombia After almost two hours of flight in a small…

Ish Jamanthy and ACT-Suriname hold relief action for flooded villages of southern Suriname

June 26, 2020

June 26, 2020 – Publication: Waterkant The water installation company Ish Jamanthy Suriname, in collaboration with the Amazon Conservation Team…

Indigenous concerns increased due to the spread of Covid-19

June 15, 2020

June 15, 2020 – Publication: De Ware Tijd (DWT Online) PARAMARIBO – Theodoris Jubitana, president of the Association of Indigenous…

Court decisions will be translated into the languages of indigenous peoples – Semana Sostenible

March 31, 2020

March 30, 2020 – Semana Sostenible The Colombian Constitutional Court and the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) will disseminate to the…

Colombian Constitutional Court reaches agreement to translate its rulings for indigenous communities – El Tiempo

March 31, 2020

March 30, 2020 – El Tiempo A project with the Amazon Conservation Team seeks to translate major rulings that defend…

“We believed ourselves invincible”: Francisco de Roux

March 29, 2020

By Francisco de Roux (Jesuit priest, philosopher, economist, and president of the Colombian Truth Commission) March 29, 2020 – Semana By Francisco…

The Colombian Constitutional Court and the Amazon Conservation Team join forces to bring the Court’s decisions to the nation’s ethnic communities

March 27, 2020

Bulletin No. 44 Bogotá, March 27, 2020. The Colombian Constitutional Court and the Amazon Conservation Team will work together to…

How Indigenous Lands are Being Titled in Antioquia

December 20, 2019

Source: Revista Semana December 15, 2019 Nine indigenous reserves have been established in Antioquia since 2016. The reason: the department’s…

Amazon fires jeopardize indigenous tribes living without contact with the world

September 20, 2019

Amazon fires jeopardize indigenous tribes living without contact with the world Article originally published in Revista Semana, September 18, 2019…