Amazon Conservation

❗New from MAAP! 🛰️ Illegal gold mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon, particularly around the Punino River, has expanded rapidly, impacting protected areas and Indigenous territories. 🌳 In MAAP's latest report (#219), mining deforestation grew by 420 hectares in the first half of 2024, bringing the total affected area to 1,422 hectares—equivalent to over 2,000 soccer fields. Most of this mining is illegal, threatening Sumaco-Napo Galeras National Park, El Chaco Conservation Area, and Kichwa Indigenous lands. ⭐ Read the full report below. #conservation #goldmining #ecuador #deforestation https://lnkd.in/efwcsVjw

❗🛰️ Check out the latest report from MAAP! The MAAP #218 report focuses on the deaths of environmental defenders in different parts of Peru’s Amazon. Between 2010 and 2022, around 29 Peruvian environmentalists and Indigenous leaders were killed while protecting various areas of Peru’s Amazon from those seeking to exploit its resources. The report delves into the connection between the locations of these killings and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, providing important context for these murders, which indicate a link to significant deforestation threats in the region. ⭐Read more about this report: https://lnkd.in/dxtjhvJi

#AmazonTEC2024 🌳 | We're less than one month away from AmazonTEC's first session: Science and technology for resilient and prosperous Amazonian fruits! This session will present various scientific advances in understanding the effects of climate change on Amazonian soil and forests, as well as its influence on the productivity of fruits such as Brazil nuts, aguaje, cacao, camu camu, and more. 🫐🌰🌱 ⭐ Register for the live stream today! 👉https://lnkd.in/eVZD5Uyt AmazonTEC is an event that brings together innovators, conservationists, and friends of the forest to discuss advances and challenges in science, technology, and innovation for the protection and sustainability of the Amazon. Please note that session one of AmazonTEC will be presented in Spanish. Session two in November will have English translations.

📰❗ “They’re basically trying to find the last places on earth that still have these just huge, continuous areas that can support their lifestyle, and that just happens to be forested areas in the Amazon.” The New York Times quotes our MAAP Director Matt Finer in this recent article that discusses the impacts of Mennonite settlements on Amazonian forests. 🌳 As data collected by recent MAAP reports shows, Mennonites have cleared more than 17,000 acres of forest since first appearing in the Peruvian Amazon in 2017. ⭐ Read the full article below ⬇️ 🛰️ Read our MAAP report on Mennonite colonies ➡️ https://t.ly/XS9l7 https://lnkd.in/ecYUixai

🌳❗ "Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat" The Associated Press highlights our recent MAAP work in a recent article on carbon absorption in the Amazon basin. Read the full article below. ⭐ Read the full MAAP #215 report: https://t.ly/385R4 https://lnkd.in/dkZpaWpM

🛰️❗New from MAAP! Thanks to new satellite-based technologies, our latest MAAP report, MAAP #215, is able to take a more in-depth, accurate look at the Amazon Biome's above-ground carbon estimates. 🌳🌎 Through a generous sharing agreement with the satellite imagery company Planet, our MAAP team has been granted access to vital carbon data across the entire Amazon biome. The following report analyzes Planet’s cutting-edge new dataset which features a 10-year historical time series (2013 – 2022) with wall-to-wall estimates for aboveground carbon density. ⭐Read the full report below. https://lnkd.in/ePqJN7Jx

Update from MAAP ❗🛰️ As agriculture has become one of the leading causes of deforestation across the Amazon, MAAP has continued to closely monitor its impacts. Thanks to new data and online visualization tools, key land use patterns centered around agriculture are being discovered across the Amazon. This new report, MAAP #214, provides our first overall estimate of Amazonian land use, the most detailed effort to date across all nine countries of the biome. ⭐ Read more about this report below: https://lnkd.in/eqq-Ju8f #conservation #biodiversity #agriculture #environment #deforestation

In an effort to advance the sustainable management of regional conservation areas in Peru, our sister organization Conservación Amazónica - ACCA donated 290,000 Peruvian Soles (about $77,100) to the Cuzco Regional Government in support of a project aiming to create a regional system of protected areas in the country’s Andes-Amazon region. 🤝 The latest funds will support the management of the Chuyapi Urusayhua Regional Conservation Area, one of the region’s five Regional Conservation Areas. 🌳 ⬇ Read more about how Conservación Amazónica - ACCA is supporting Regional Conservation Areas in Peru below. https://lnkd.in/e4dupUcY

SAVE THE DATE! #AmazonTEC2024: Technology for a positive Amazon! 🌿🚀 This year, our sister organization in Peru Conservación Amazónica - ACCA will be hosting two important sessions: 🌰 Session 1: “Science and Technology for resilient and thriving Amazonian Fruits" focuses on the advances in science, technology, and innovation for Brazil nuts and other Amazonian fruits. 📅 Date: September 20 at the ExpoAmazónica fair in the Madre de Dios province of Peru. 🐆 Session 2: “Technology for Wildlife Conservation,” centered on the use of technology in conserving wildlife. 📅 Date: November 2024. Don't miss these fascinating sessions! Learn more: amazontec.pe 🤝 This event is organized by Conservación Amazónica - ACCA in collaboration with the Gobierno Regional de Madre de Dios, the Mancomunidad Regional Amazónica and the Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, thanks to the generous support of Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – NICFI, Wyss Academy for Nature, Amazon Conservation and the Climate and Land Use Alliance. #AmazonTEC2024 #Tecnología #Conservación #Innovación #Amazonía

We are excited to announce that our Bolivian sister organization ACEAA - Conservación Amazónica has helped establish a new protected area within the municipality of San Ramón in Beni, Bolivia! 🌳🎉🌿 This new area, "Arroyo Guarichona," marks a major win for conservation, helping to protect 199,435,057 hectares (492,814.8 acres) of savannas, plain forests, and biodiversity hot spots. This achievement also acts as a crucial step for the sustainable management of wildlife, cultural heritage, and water regulation of the Amazon. 🌄 We are extremely proud of all the hard work our dedicated team has put towards this incredible achievement! 👏 https://lnkd.in/e42B49hN