AMAZON

Amazon Conservation

@amazon_conservation_association

Washington, District of Columbia
http://www.amazonconservation.org
Environmental Services

Overview

About Amazon Conservation

Amazon Conservation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that unites science, innovation, and community to protect the western Amazon - the greatest wild forest on Earth. We do so by empowering people, protecting wild places, and putting science to work for conservation. We envision a thriving Amazon that sustains the full diversity of life.

We work on the ground where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon rainforest. Science-guided strategies and innovative conservation are our tools; communities on the ground, our allies. We protect this vital forest by creating a network of public and private lands managed for conservation and sustainable use of resources. Our target is always the most enduring conservation impact.

By concentrating our resources in the field - where they have the largest impact - we have protected millions of acres in the western Amazon. We have created replicable conservation models—such as conservation concessions, where a national government relies on a private partner such as us to manage public land for conservation—that have been successfully applied elsewhere in the region and around the world.

We go beyond land protection to empower indigenous communities to create forest-friendly livelihoods, deploy cutting-edge technology like drones and satellites to detect deforestation and alert authorities, and host hundreds of scientists and students at our three research stations every year to advance our understanding of this irreplaceable habitat.

Headquarters

Washington, District of Columbia

Website

http://www.amazonconservation.org

Company Size

51-200 employees

Industry

Environmental Services

Company Type

Nonprofit

Founded

1999

Specialties

conservation, environment, Peru, Bolivia, Amazon, rainforest, Andes, ecotourism, wildlife protection, indigenous communities, protected areas, Brasil, Empower people, Conservation Community, science driven, bioeconomy , sociobioeconomy, researches , Sustainable Forest Economies, Illegal Mining Prevention, MAAP, Camera Traps, Non Profits, Amazon Basin, Latin America, Pan Amazon, Policy Advocacy, GIS & Remote Sensing, Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program., and Amazonia

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