Protect the forest 
with indigenous peoples

Championing land rights, leadership, and living traditions

Frontline communities of Amazonia are fighting to protect their homelands and ways of life. In solidarity with partner communities, our rights-based approach expands indigenous territories, improves collective well-being, and promotes indigenous leadership.

 

Accomplishments by the numbers

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million acres under improved sustainable management

Through our Ancestral Tides program, the Amazon Conservation Team partners with Indigenous and local communities to protect sea turtles and the coastal ecosystems they call home—from the Gulf of California to Colombia.

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Learn more about the areas we work in, how we partner with local communities, and what we do to protect the rainforest.

Living Territories: Stories of Territorial Justice

Join the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) for stories of the ways in which our work to improve territorial rights is helping to empower communities to help manage and preserve some of the world’s most critical ecosystems.

Experience Story Map

Collective Rights Violated During the Pandemic

Cartography of 2017 cases of collective rights violations in six Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an analysis of how communities have defended their territories.

Experience Story Map

The Guiana Shield: One of the Last Wild Places on Earth

Learn about the importance of advancing the consolidation of a 30-million-hectare biocultural corridor across the eastern Guiana Shield, jointly managed by local communities and national governments.

Experience Story Map

25 Years of Biocultural Conservation: The Amazon Conservation Team's 25th Anniversary

For the last 25 years, ACT’s decisions have been guided by close consultation with our partner communities, particularly the elders, who have defined our priorities in the fight for ancestral land rights and protection.

Experience Story Map

Wai Wai Indigenous people and the ACT-Brasil team | Photo: Ricardo Rey Londoño / ACT-Brasil Archive

A People Who Resist Collectively: The Gathering of the Wai Wai

Wai Wai Indigenous people and the ACT-Brasil team | Photo: Ricardo Rey Londoño / ACT-Brasil Archive The Wai Wai are ...
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Peru Fails to Seize Critical Opportunity to Create World’s Largest Reserve for Isolated Peoples

As the General Secretariat of the International Working Group of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (GTI-PIACI), the Amazon ...
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From Bogotá to Belém: What’s at stake for the future of the Amazon

Carolina Gil, Regional Director of the Amazon Conservation Team Colombia authored this op-ed, published August 27, 2025 in El Espectador, ...
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For the first time, the UN Climate Conference will take place in the Amazon, one of the most vital and diverse ecosystems on Earth, in Belém, Brazil. The Amazon is also at the heart of our mission, and we’re honored to bring forward climate solutions rooted in the knowledge and leadership of Indigenous peoples and local communities.

When you invest in us, you are helping to protect the forest and its guardians. Together we can work to save the Amazon, an invaluable resource that we all need to survive.