Written by: Emma Rada – Conservación Amazónica-ACEAA, Bolivia When the boat engine falls silent in the middle of a river that serves as both road and lifeline, nature seems to reclaim the landscape. The water becomes still again, a heron soars across the sky, the wind stirs the crowns of towering trees. And for a […]

Just like the Amazon’s canopy depends on careful structure to hold up an entire ecosystem, our personal lives depend on careful structure, foresight, and protection to thrive. This August marks National Make-A-Will Month, a nationwide effort to help adults take one of the most important, and most often postponed, steps in planning for the future. […]

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Opinion Piece by Blaise Bodin, Amazon Conservation’s Director of Strategy and Policy On July 3, we mark the anniversary of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT), signed in 1978 by the eight Amazonian nations and institutionalized in 1995 as the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO/OTCA). Nearly five decades later, ACTO remains the only intergovernmental body built […]

Behind every success at Amazon Conservation is an array of individuals with a shared passion for the Amazon: our generous donors and funders, dedicated staff (both on the ground in Latin America and at our headquarters in Washington,DC), and world-class Board of Directors. Our Board brings together passionate leaders in science, business, and conservation who […]

Protect Wild Places

How one UK entrepreneur is helping businesses find a conservation story worth telling. When Pam Moore founded Plant Protect, she had one clear conviction: that businesses deserved a conservation partnership they could actually feel proud of, not a compliance checkbox or a one-off transaction. Growing up in Liverpool surrounded by little greenery, she learned early […]

Every year, independent evaluators comb through nonprofit financial records, governance practices, and program data to help donors answer one of the most important questions in philanthropy: is this organization worth my trust? We’re glad to share that in 2026, their answer about Amazon Conservation was yes, across the board. Candid has renewed our Platinum Seal […]

Empower People

Amazon Conservation launches a first-of-its-kind tool comparing mining governance across all eight Amazonian countries As record-high gold prices continue to fuel the expansion of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) across the Amazon, governments face mounting pressure to address one of the region’s most persistent drivers of deforestation, ecosystem degradation, and social conflict. To help […]

MAAP Reports

Satellite monitoring and drone analysis reveal the expansion of mining into national parks, biological reserves, and protected forests that are critical for the biodiversity and ecological connectivity of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The expansion of gold mining in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon continues to push into strategic ecosystems and protected areas of high ecological importance. This […]

This month, our Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP) released two major reports on illegal gold mining in two of the Amazon’s most critical territories: the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil and the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru. The findings are both encouraging and deeply alarming. Brazil: Progress in Yanomami, but miners are adapting […]