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Protecting the Amazon requires more than better technology, stronger science, or more funding alone. It requires bringing those pieces together and making sure the people developing new tools, funding solutions, shaping policy, and working on the ground are part of the same conversation. That was the idea behind The Amazon Rainforest’s Next Frontier: Technology, Local […]

New report finds 92% of mining-related deforestation occurred in Brazil, while rapid expansion into Colombia threatens Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, despite repeated government operations. A new report from Amazon Conservation’s MAAP (Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program), developed in collaboration with the Field Museum of Natural History, reveals that illegal gold mining has […]

Amazon Conservation’s latest analysis finds that 97 million hectares (240 million acres) of primary forest have been lost – an area the size of Texas and California combined – and that the moisture pathways that forests depend on during the dry and transition seasons are the most disrupted. A new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring […]

This week is National Estate Planning Awareness Week (NEPAW), and we have good news from the field to share. Our sister organization Conservación Amazónica-ACEAA‘s Pando Verde project in Bolivia’s Pando department in the Amazon has been named the 2026 winner in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Lab’s category of “2026 Development Superheroes,” selected from 162 […]

Leer en Español Ler em português New analysis assesses the impacts of BR-364 expansion on Acre’s forests and warns of risks to REDD+ investments and the communities that depend on these resources A new analysis of planned road infrastructure expansion in Acre estimates that a paved international road between the Brazilian state and Pucallpa, Peru, […]

Celebrating National Family Day with a Legacy of Love On National Family Day on September 28, we naturally focus our attention on protecting and celebrating the people who matter most to us. At Amazon Conservation, we believe that family extends beyond our immediate households to encompass our global community, including the local communities, forest guardians, […]

Açaí berries, Brazil nuts, and the fruit of the palma real (royal palm) do more than nourish people worldwide. They sustain families and protect forests in the Amazon. These fruits appear in smoothies, supplement bottles, and skincare products powering healthy lifestyles around the world, but their greater significance lies in the rainforest. Harvesting and producing […]

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The water that sustains the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil begins its journey thousands of miles away, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Rain that falls on the highest peaks, and glacier waters that melt and filter through fragile wetlands called bofedales, slowly make their way down into the rivers and streams that feed the […]