Stand With the Women Fighting to Keep the Amazon Thriving

December 16, 2025

What would you do if your future depended on the health of the forest around you? For many in the Amazon, that’s not a hypothetical—it’s daily life.

Across the rainforest, powerful stories are unfolding—stories of strength, hope, and courage. Indigenous communities and local leaders are working hard to protect the forest that sustains their life, food, and culture.

Thanks to your support, local communities are leading bold, transformative work to protect their forests. Their voices—full of wisdom and bravery—are guiding conservation in ways that respect tradition and shape sustainable futures.

At the heart of this movement are women. They are transforming forest-based resources into thriving livelihoods, passing down knowledge to future generations, and leading efforts to protect their forests and communities. Their stories remind us that protecting the Amazon is not just about preserving trees. It’s about uplifting people, cultures, and legacies.

“The Amazon represents something natural, something beautiful. [It] holds some value for each of us.”
 — Elydanitza Yarari Monje

“[The Amazon] represents life for us, because [it] is what provides our needs for us as women and as rural communities.”
 — Rosaldina Dumay Mocho

These women are shaping the future of the Amazon, one day at a time. They are passing down traditions of stewardship to their children. And thanks to donors like you, their impact can grow.

“What we always do as women is teach our children so that they can also get involved in taking care of the Amazon, in taking care of the environment and of the forest where we live. It is about passing this legacy on to our children.”
 — Rosaldina Dumay Mocho

Your solidarity supports our work alongside our sister organization Conservación Amazónica–ACEAA in Bolivia that is creating opportunities and pathways for emerging leaders to thrive.

Hear directly from some of the women leading their communities in the Bolivian Amazon to protect the forest for future generations in this short video:


Your support matters now more than ever. Together, we can empower leaders and build resilient communities. 

Each and every day, these women are working hard to transform forest products like acai, Brazil nuts, and cacao into sustainable livelihoods—keeping trees standing and communities thriving. Their leadership proves a simple but powerful truth:

Conservation is strongest when led by those who call the forest home.

 

Your Support Amplifies Their Voices

Your generosity helps strengthen forest-based economies, empower women producers and Indigenous leaders, and safeguard one of the world’s most vital ecosystems. This year, your contribution directly supports the people whose lives and futures are intertwined with the Amazon.

When you give today, you’re investing in:

  • Indigenous producers and women-led producer associations that turn forest resources into sustainable livelihoods, adding value to products like açaí berries, oils, and soaps.
  • Local guardians and community-led conservation efforts to patrol, defend, and protect their territories, keeping forests standing for generations to come.
  • Resources and workshops like Women Producing the Future, where Indigenous leaders share strategies to protect their forests.
  • Youth engagement programs ensuring that the next generation of women and men will inherit a thriving forest and the knowledge to care for it.

Your gift doesn’t just protect trees—it uplifts families, strengthens communities, and advances long-term conservation solutions.


Act now: your gift before December 31 keeps this movement going strong into the new year.

 

 

Together, we can stand with local communities, protect critical forest resources, and secure a future where the Amazon thrives.

 

Amazon Conservation is an international conservation nonprofit working for the past 25 years toward building a thriving Amazon. The organization’s holistic approach focuses on working with local partners and allies to protect wild places, empower people, and put science and technology to work for conservation. 

Our on-the-ground work, as part of Amazon Conservation Alliance, is carried out through our sister organizations Conservación Amazónica-ACCA in Peru and Conservación Amazónica-ACEAA in Bolivia, are geographically focused on the headwaters of the Amazon basin. From this base, we incubate solutions and scale through building partnerships across the region, including in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela, where we have been strengthening coverage of our real-time monitoring efforts to combat illegal deforestation through our flagship Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP).