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ASL Newsletter - April 2025
The ASL celebrates a decade of collaboration connecting people and institutions to connect landscapes. This edition of the newsletter highlights key moments from its 7th Annual Conference in Georgetown, Guyana, and national project updates. Learn more about the inspiring efforts of leaders from Brazil and Ecuador featured in the Echoes from the Amazon section.
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Feature Story: Protecting Jaguars' Role in Ecosystem Balance in the Amazon
The Amazon is home to approximately 90% of the world’s jaguar population, who play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance of the Amazon rainforest by regulating prey populations. Conservation efforts using technology and ecological corridors are vital to protecting jaguars and their habitats.
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ASL at COP16
On Thursday, October 24, the ASL will host a side event at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia. The event will focus on the Program’s 10 years, sharing key results and lessons learned. It will provide updates on the program’s achievements over the past decade and its contributions to biodiversity conservation.
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Celebrating Amazon Rangers
In honor of World Ranger Day, we celebrate the incredible rangers who dedicate their lives to protecting the Amazon Rainforest. Join us as we spotlight extraordinary rangers from the Amazon region working with ASL projects in this Storymap.
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'Guardianas del Futuro' (Guardians of the Future) Podcast
Colombian media outlet "La Oreja Roja" visited the Colombian Amazon to meet the female leaders fighting for environmental conservation and tackling issues like illegal mining and deforestation. These women are part of the ASL and its Heart of the Amazon project.
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2023 Annual Report
This report offers an overview of our program, highlighting the achievements, challenges, and lessons from the national projects. These successes have been made possible through fruitful collaborations with governments, project teams, civil society, donors, and other organizations working in the Amazon region. Additionally, the report includes information on the third phase (ASL3) of the program.
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Feature Story: Preserving the Treasures of the Amazon
The Amazon region is home to 10% of the world's known species, and there is still much to discover. Many Amazonian species are threatened by habitat loss, environmental crimes such as poaching and other human activities.
The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program has projects in seven countries in the region, working with communities to address these issues.
International Funding for Amazon Conservation and Sustainable Management: An analysis of grant funding from 2013 to 2022
This analysis provides important data on funding for conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon, especially given its focus on the period in which the COVID-19 pandemic occurred. This information can be used to inform and promote dialogue leading to enhanced donor coordination efforts. Key recommendations include updating these data regularly, enhancing the analysis with impact evaluations, using the data to establish synergies among donors and recipients, and increasing funding that goes directly to indigenous and local communities. The study makes the updated funding data from 2013-2022 available in an interactive open access data visualization dashboard, which was created by the World Bank during the previous study.
2023 Annual Conference Memoirs - Tarapoto, Peru
Explore the highlights of the Sixth Annual ASL Conference. Held in Tarapoto, Peru from November 13-17, 2023 the conference was a testament to the power of collective action. Explore the exchange of knowledge, capacity building, and regional cooperation that took place during the event.
Read the memoirs in English - Spanish - Portuguese
Feature Story: Regional Collaboration to Address the Impacts of Mercury Pollution in the Amazon
Illegal mining in the Amazon region is causing widespread mercury contamination, with far-reaching consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, and the health of local communities. This feature story highlights the development of a series of activities to strengthen regional collaboration in the fight against the impacts of gold mining and mercury pollution.
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PREVIOUS ASL EVENTS
Webinar: Presentation of the Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Amazon Basin/Region | May 14, 2024
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is an intergovernmental organization, conformed by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which has as one of its fundamental areas of work the management of the relevant and unique biological diversity of the megadiverse ecosystem of the Amazon. In this context, the 8 Member Countries unanimously approved in 2021 the "Biodiversity Program for the Amazon Basin/Region" in order to improve the management of biological diversity and the protection of the traditional knowledge of the indigenous peoples and other communities of the Amazon.
As a first action of the Program to better understand the status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Amazon Region, as well as their interrelationships, opportunities and effectiveness of responses to current threats, ACTO coordinated a group of 118 experts from Amazonian countries to develop during the years 2021-2023, a "Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Amazon Basin/Region", following the methodology and conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - IPBES. The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) in its mission to promote the dialogue of knowledge and best practices has created the opportunity to disseminate this important work.
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Webinar: Putting geospatial data into action: Indigenous Peoples' community-led rainforest monitoring in the Amazon region | April 2, 2024
Recording in English - Portuguese - Spanish
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Globally, Indigenous Peoples and local community-managed lands play a pivotal role in mitigating climate change and preserving the planet's ecological balance, accounting for at least 293,061 million metric tons of carbon, equivalent to 17% of the total carbon stored in the world's forestlands, and roughly 16 percent of intact forest landscapes, serving as critical biodiversity havens. The Amazon region alone is home to around 500 different Indigenous groups, whose territories cover almost 29 percent of one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world, hosting more than 10 percent of the planet's biodiversity. Management of these indigenous territories has been shown to result in lower deforestation and degradation rates, conservation of biodiversity, improved livelihoods, food security, and enhancement of their rights across the Amazon.
In this webinar, we explored how new technologies, including geospatial data, directly used by Indigenous Peoples can support effective management of their territories, providing them with accessible, up to date information to monitor threats and preserve their natural resources. Drawing on examples of participatory monitoring efforts from Brazil, Guyana, and Peru, speakers showed how new technologies, including mobile apps, drones, and satellite imagery, are being used to track areas of deforestation and provide compelling evidence to influence policymakers. We discussed how community-led initiatives supported by geospatial data can tackle environmental threats and support the protection of these invaluable territories.
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