To work in partnership with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, improve human health, and fortify traditional culture in greater Amazonia.

The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), an efficient and effective interdisciplinary team of conservation professionals, was founded in 1996 by ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin and conservationist Liliana Madrigal. ACT achieves its conservation successes by working in true partnership with indigenous peoples of the Amazon to protect both their cultures and their ancestral lands—some of the largest tracts of both pristine and sustainably managed rainforest on the planet. Our work begins in the forest - with the people who actually live there - and then expands to the state, national, regional and international level.

Protecting the Amazon
Mitigating climate change
Land Protection
Sustainable Development
Integrated Healthcare
Strengthening Indigenous Culture