Protect Wild Places

With Black Friday coming up, it’s easy to be tempted by all the flashy deals and must-have products that come across our screens, but shopping sustainably is easier than you might think! There are many sustainable businesses out there that take measures to integrate sustainability into their business model, such as reducing their carbon footprint […]

Put Science and Technology to Work MAAP Reports

MAAP #199 provides an update on the current state of remaining Amazon carbon reserves. Presenting the newly updated version of NASA’s GEDI data, which uses lasers aboard the International Space Station to provide cutting-edge estimates of aboveground biomass density on a global scale, we take a first look at striking maps of the current aboveground […]

Put Science and Technology to Work

AmazonTEC, sponsored by Norad and organized by Conservación Amazónica-ACCA, is a space that brings together scientists, environmental professionals, and friends of the forest to discuss the use of technology and different technological tools for forest protection.  This year’s AmazonTEC event will feature an in-person event in Lima on November 7th aimed at how to achieve […]

  Did you know that this week’s theme for the Combined Federal Campaign is Animal Welfare Week? This week, we are asking federal employees to help us protect the habitat of all of those animals in the Amazon who cannot speak for themselves and fight to keep their homes and food sources. Give Happy and […]

Protect Wild Places

With the World Bank Group Community Connections Campaign (CCC) launching today, Amazon Conservation invites you to join us in the fight against nature crimes and deforestation that continue to endanger the future of the rainforest by contributing to our conservation efforts by December 15.  All of us at Amazon Conservation want to thank you for […]

Empower People

  In our continuing effort to fight nature crimes across the Amazon, Amazon Conservation has endorsed an open letter to the UNCAC States Parties urging governments to adopt a resolution to prevent and combat environmental crime and corruption. This letter will be published and disseminated prior to the 10th Session of the UN Convention against […]

Put Science and Technology to Work MAAP Reports

Our newly published MAAP #197 report presents our most comprehensive analysis of mining across the Amazon to date. As illegal gold mining continues to be one of the major issues facing nearly all Amazonian countries, the information in these reports incorporates major gold mining operations in rivers with its deforestation effects, estimating that there are at least 58 […]

We are proud to be a founding member of the recently-established Nature Crime Alliance (NCA), a global multi-sector initiative to fight environmental crimes across the globe, led by the World Resources Institute (WRI). Through this joint initiative, we will be working with NGOs and local governments to raise political awareness, implement financial commitment, and strengthen […]

We are excited to announce that our 2022 Impact Report is now available to read! In this report, we discuss in detail our extensive work in conservation working with local communities, and bringing science and innovation to life. Thanks to the help of our supporters, we’ve been able to establish a new conservation area, help […]

Put Science and Technology to Work

From day one, Amazon Conservation has combined the power of technology and locally-driven action to combat deforestation across the Amazon. In 2015, we launched our Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Program (MAAP) to provide real-time actionable data using the latest in satellite technology to help stop deforestation threats that harm forests and the people that […]