In a new commentary for Mongabay, Dr. Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and President of the Amazon Conservation Team, argues that large-scale…
Staff from the Amazon Conservation Team are featured across multiple episodes of Rewilding Amazonia, an eight-part investigative podcast series from Rewildology examining what…
As a new executive order fast-tracks psychedelic research for veteran mental health treatment, WWLTV turned to Dr. Mark Plotkin, co-founder…
The Amazon Conservation Team works closely with Indigenous communities to create cultural maps that record and preserve traditional knowledge and…
Juan Carlos Cruz, Manager of Science and Conservation with the Amazon Conservation Team’s Ancestral Tides initiative, recently joined the Oceanography…
February 20, 2026 The original article published in Spanish by La Silla Vacia can be found here. Written by Juana…
As the world gathers for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Dr. Mark Plotkin, co-founder and president of the Amazon Conservation Team,…
Carolina Gil, regional director for the Amazon Conservation Team, wrote the following op-ed, published in the Colombian digital news outlet…
Mongabay, an independent environmental news organization, recently highlighted two communities in the Colombian Amazon, who are working to protect the…
Carolina Gil, Regional Director of the Amazon Conservation Team Colombia authored this op-ed, published August 27, 2025 in El Espectador,…
In Peru, in the rural communities of Raqchi and Queromarca, ACT supported the seventh annual Watunakuy Gathering, which seeks to…
In the northeast Amazon, Our work focuses on the following areas: Indigenous park guards Shamans and Apprentices program Traditional medicine…
In the northwest Amazon, our work focuses on the following areas: Protection of isolated indigenous group Intercultural education (known to…
Shamans and Apprentices: Keeping traditional knowledge alive in the Amazon. For five tribes of the Colombian Amazon, ACT provides support…
Traditional medicine clinics in Suriname. In the rainforests of southern Suriname, ACT has a longstanding program – carried out by…
Supporting food security within indigenous communities. Because indigenous groups are unable to conduct much if any conservation work if their…
Launching of the first indigenous park guard training course in the northeast Amazon. ACT has instituted the first indigenous park…
Comprehensive, long-term sustainable management plans for the Suruí people. In the western Brazilian Amazon, ACT helped the Suruí people develop…
Supporting and empowering women healers. In Colombia, ACT supported the creation and continues to sponsor the operations of the first…
ACT designs programs specifically to support the health of our indigenous partners because the degree to which our partners enjoy…