​​​​Thanks to You: Protecting the Amazon in 2025

January 20, 2026

In 2025, your support to Amazon Conservation made meaningful results possible across the Amazon Rainforest, strengthening local people’s ability to defend their forests, expanding protected areas, and elevating Indigenous leadership, while ensuring that science, partnerships, and action moved forward together. Here are some highlights of what we achieved together during our 25th anniversary year. 

Through our Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP), we produced 232 analyses last year to pinpoint the most urgent deforestation cases across the Amazon. 219 of those were confidential intelligence briefs sent directly to government agencies or local community leaders across 6 Amazonian countries to help them take swift action against illegal activities destroying the forest. These reports prompted 171 government responses and enforcement actions, including 18 on-the-ground operations targeting illegal mining activities.

We also expanded our regional reach, working alongside more than 20 local partners and Indigenous leaders to strengthen their ability to defend their forest homes with real-time satellite monitoring, legal support, and technical training, effectively monitoring 478 million acres of forest in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

At the same time, your support helped secure lasting protection on the ground. In 2025, four new conservation areas safeguarded over 3 million acres in Bolivia and Peru, while Indigenous communities in Bolivia’s Tacana II territory achieved a historic land title victory that now guarantees their legal right to steward their ancestral lands after two decades of advocacy.

 Our science also reached the global stage. Our analysis on the impact of “flying rivers” to generate rainfall and where conservation gaps threaten to accelerate the forest’s tipping point was heavily highlighted by the media and at COP30, which elevated the conservation needs of the Amazon to key decision makers.  

And in partnership with Earth Genome and the Pulitzer Center, we launched Amazon Mining Watch, an AI-powered platform offering the most comprehensive basin-wide picture of gold mining deforestation to date. This tool you enabled will be vital for policymakers and journalists to inform decisions and investigative reporting on the conservation impacts and the socio-environmental costs of illegal gold mining. 

Each analysis, each acre protected, and each territory secured represents more than a statistic. It reflects Indigenous leadership, stronger governance, and a more resilient Amazon, made possible because of you. As we look ahead, we invite you to continue walking alongside us. The Amazon’s future depends on sustained action, and your partnership ensures that progress continues in protecting forests, empowering Indigenous guardians, and securing a resilient future for us all.

Thank you for standing with us!