Amazon Conservation Association
Amazon Conservation is an international conservation nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the Amazon Rainforest is protected and thriving for the benefit of nature, people, and the climate. For 25 years, we have worked side by side with local people in Peru and Bolivia through our unique Alliance and today across all 9 Amazonian countries through a network of local partners.
Our mission is to unite science, innovation, and people to protect the Amazon -- the greatest wild forest on Earth. We envisage a thriving Amazon that sustains the full diversity of life. Our vision for the coming decade is bold: a thriving, resilient Amazon that sustains biodiversity, supports Indigenous peoples and local communities, regulates the global climate, and drives a sustainable future.
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Programs
Protecting Wild Places
We work hand-in-hand with governments and communities to create and strengthen key conservation areas to protect globally-important forests that help mitigate the effects of climate change and provide vital resources for all who call them home. We do this by addressing threats, creating conservation areas, safeguarding Indigenous territories, strengthening land management programs, connecting habitats, and building climate resilience.
Putting Science and Technology to Work
We innovate by applying the latest in science and technology to our conservation work and managing a premier network of conservation hubs. We do this through real-time deforestation monitoring, conservation hubs, and advancing science.
Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP)
Our Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP), is at the forefront of the field of high-tech, real-time monitoring. Launched in 2015, MAAP’s innovative application of satellite technology from multiple sources delivers actionable information that provides a transformational tool for governments and local people to rapidly detect deforestation as it is happening. MAAP satellite monitoring covers 100% of the Amazon biome in all 9 countries that it encompasses: Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.