Amazon Conservation Team

Territorial justice is the reclamation of access to and stewardship and decision-making over ancestral lands, waters, and resources for #indigenouspeoples. Colonization has stolen and decimated #indigenous territory, displacing communities and devastating #ecologies and #biodiversity. 🌿     📢 Today, colonization takes the form of rapidly expanding unsustainable—and often illegal—extractive industries and industrial #agriculture. For communities, being forced off their lands is more than a material loss. It is an erasure of lifeways that steward the environment, and spells disastrous consequences for #nature. 🔥     💚 We work towards territorial justice by empowering communities to advocate for and uphold their #landrights. 🗺     📹 Learn more about our work supporting #territorialjustice in the #amazonrainforest in this short video, and visit https://lnkd.in/ez8C9eyS   #weareindigenous #indigenouspeoplesday #indigenousrights #worldindigenousday #collectiverights #indigenousday #rainforest #savetheamazon #savetherainforest #climatechange #landback 

🌿 New Hope Flourishes in the Amazon 🌿 We’re proud to share a groundbreaking milestone: the inauguration of the Kapai and Aretina Guardians of Knowledge Center in Urunai, Brazil! In partnership with the Tiriyó, Kaxuyana, and Txikyana peoples, this community-led space celebrates Indigenous plant medicine and cultural heritage. It’s a hub for revitalizing healing practices and safeguarding traditional knowledge—empowering communities for generations to come. This incredible achievement wouldn’t be possible without your support. For nearly 30 years, your contributions have helped protect the Amazon’s cultural and ecological heritage. 🌟 Join us! Make a year-end gift to support projects like this and help safeguard the Amazon’s future. Click here to donate: https://lnkd.in/d8U9sjTb 💚 Thank you for standing with us. 📸: The chief of the Urunai village, Kapai, at the new Kapai and Aretina Guardians of Knowledge Center. (Photo by Amanda Lelis) #AmazonConservation #IndigenousWisdom #ProtectTheAmazon #CulturalHeritage #RainforestPreservation

🌱 Suriname has ample secondary forests in its coastal areas. Secondary forests refer to all forests that regenerate naturally after the original forest has been destroyed naturally or by people. This can be after a storm or after people have deforested it for agriculture or other purposes. 🌿   ⏩Learn about Suriname’s secondary forest through our video series “Forest Types of Suriname”. 🎥 Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/e2WPt9Am #traditionalknowledge #Guianas #Suriname #ecology #forestry #trees #ecosystem #climate #highforestcover #lowdeforestation #Maroon #ecologicalknowledge #forest #rainforest #savanna #botany #botanical 

🌿 The Amazon needs you: Your year-end gift makes a difference 🌱 Together, we can safeguard the Amazon and protect isolated peoples living there. 🌎 As 2024 winds down, we at the Amazon Conservation Team are filled with gratitude. Your support led to successes, but these advances remind us of the scale of challenges ahead. 🌴 The Amazon rainforest faces relentless threats—deforestation, mining, and illegal land invasions jeopardize Indigenous lands. Isolated peoples, who rely solely on the rainforest, are especially at risk. 🚧 There are 189 isolated Indigenous groups documented across South America. Their survival depends on urgent action to protect their rights and ancestral rainforests. ACT and our partners have made significant progress protecting some of these groups, but much remains to be done. 🍃 This year, we reached a milestone: ACT was appointed Technical Secretariat of the International Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Isolation. ACT now helps lead a network of 21 organizations across 8 countries working to protect isolated peoples. 💚 Your support made this possible. 🌱 Together, we will continue to advocate for isolated peoples and empower Indigenous communities to protect their isolated neighbors. Looking ahead, we see even greater opportunities to expand this work. With your year-end gift, we can safeguard the Amazon’s isolated peoples and ensure the rainforest thrives for generations. 🙏 Stand with us. Join our mission to protect the Amazon alongside Indigenous partners by making a year-end gift. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/d8U9sjTb Together, we can make lasting change! 💚 📸: Illegal mining barges in the Brazilian Amazon captured during an overflight mission. #indigenousrights #humanrights #amazonrainforest #isolatedpeoples #pueblosaislados #PIACI #AISLADOS #amazonía

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Help us finish strong! 🌱 Protect the Amazon with our indigenous partners! 💚 We need YOUR help to meet our $25,000 goal this Giving Tuesday, to support our work to preserve ecosystems and biodiversity essential for mitigating the effects of climate change alongside our indigenous partners. 🌎 Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of climate change, contribute least to the climate crisis, and are suffering its effects disproportionately. When you support ACT, you empower indigenous-led efforts that have achieved extraordinary milestones: -2.7 million acres of indigenous territory established 🌳 -3,000+ acres purchased and returned to indigenous ownership🌿 -9.9 million acres managed sustainably 🌴 ⏩ Will you join us and our indigenous partners by donating $50 today? Donate here today: https://lnkd.in/dvwXrqUE #GivingTuesday #donate #nonprofit #giveback #indigenousrights #rainforest #environment #savetherainforest #SocialImpact #biodiversity #climatecrisis

🌱 Protect the Amazon with our indigenous partners! 💚 Since this morning, our Giving Tuesday campaign has raised almost $6,000. We need YOUR help to meet our $25,000 goal this Giving Tuesday, to support our work to preserve ecosystems and biodiversity essential for mitigating the effects of climate change alongside our indigenous partners. 🌎 Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of climate change, contribute least to the climate crisis, and are suffering its effects disproportionately. When you support ACT, you empower indigenous-led efforts that have achieved extraordinary milestones: -2.7 million acres of indigenous territory established 🌳 -3,000+ acres purchased and returned to indigenous ownership🌿 -9.9 million acres managed sustainably 🌴 ⏩ Will you join us and our indigenous partners by donating $50 today? Donate here: https://lnkd.in/dvwXrqUE #GivingTuesday #donate #nonprofit #giveback #indigenousrights #rainforest #environment #savetherainforest #SocialImpact #biodiversity #climatecrisis

🌴We need YOUR help to meet our $25,000 goal this Giving Tuesday, to support our work alongside our indigenous partners to preserve ecosystems and biodiversity essential for mitigating the effects of climate change. 🌎 🌱 Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of climate change, contribute least to the climate crisis, and are suffering its effects disproportionately. When you support ACT, you empower indigenous-led efforts that have achieved extraordinary milestones: -2.7 million acres of indigenous territory established -3,000+ acres purchased and returned to indigenous ownership -9.9 million acres managed sustainably Will you join us and our indigenous partners by donating $50 today? 💚 Donate here today: https://lnkd.in/dvwXrqUE #GivingTuesday #Donate #Nonprofit #Giveback #Charity #indigenousrights #rainforest #environment #savetherainforest #SocialImpact

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