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,…

El pueblo Kichwa, Sarayaku y el Estado ecuatoriano: Mapeando realidades, cambiando percepciones

December 16, 2016

Gracias a la utilización de mapas disponibles aquí—, la Corte IDH pudo ver con claridad el impacto provocado por la actitud pasiva del Estado a la hora de retirar la pentolita, como la sentencia así indica, y las nuevas concesiones que afectarán a Sarayaku.

Biodiversity training of indigenous communities completed in Suriname

December 15, 2016

Over the past two years, 25 “Amazon Conservation Rangers” of the Trio and Wayana indigenous communities of Suriname have been trained in sustainable management of the forest as a natural resource; the training has been conducted by the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) with partners.

Conservation of biodiversity in Trio and Wayana living areas in Suriname

December 14, 2016

The preliminary results of the two-year project "Capacity building of strategic groups for the sustainable use of natural resources and…

Q&A with the creators of the ‘Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes’ story map

December 4, 2016

Richard Evans Schultes is often referred to as “the father of ethnobotany,” a field of study that focuses on indigenous cultures and their use of plants. A new online tool lets anyone explore the Amazon rainforest along with him.

Viaje interactivo a la Amazonía colombiana

November 11, 2016

En 1941, Richard Evan Schultes realizó su primer viaje a la Amazonía colombiana como investigador asociado de la Universidad de Harvard. Tras sus peregrinaciones alertó a la comunidad internacional de la destrucción de la selva amazónica y el exterminio de las comunidades indígenas de la región.

Convenio beneficia a resguardos indígenas

September 9, 2016

Mediante la firma de un convenio entre la Gerencia Indígena de Antioquia de la Gobernación y la Agencia Nacional de Tierras se espera dar solución a las solicitudes de titulación, ampliación y construcción de resguardos indígenas en el departamento.

Dos años sin mi papá, el hombre que le entregó su vida al Amazonas

September 6, 2016

Roberto Franco ––un politólogo de la Universidad de los Andes que trabajaba como antropólogo y que dedicó su vida a la preservación del medio ambiente, a las comunidades indígenas aisladas, a los campesinos, a causas no muy valoradas–– se subió el 6 de septiembre de 2014 a una avioneta en Araracuara, un pueblo que queda en el Caquetá, luego de pasar la mañana recogiéndole flores de Inirida a Patricia Vargas, su mujer.

Living Planet: Apps not arms

August 26, 2016

Despite conservation efforts, swathes of Brazil’s Amazon forest are still lost to deforestation. Small-scale illegal logging can be difficult to monitor, even with satellite-imaging technology. Now, one indigenous tribe is looking to GPS mapping on smartphones to protect their forest.

Colombia, Brasil y Perú: Una mirada al estado de los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento

July 11, 2016

Es un hecho que existen y son miles, no se les ve porque viven en los lugares más recónditos de la Amazonía. Se trata de los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial (PIACI), una población numerosa que por haber permanecido durante mucho tiempo fuera del contacto con la cultura occidental, trae consigo una serie de desafíos porque su avistamiento es cada vez más común.

Cuando la música fluye

June 17, 2016

“3 mil RÍOS: Voces en la Selva”, una creación del compositor Víctor Gama inspirada en el texto “Cariba Malo” de Roberto Franco, es una ópera multimedia cantada a través de las historias de personas que habitan los bosques tropicales de la Amazonia colombiana y brasileña, la costa Pacífica y las montañas de los Andes.