Causes: Environment, Environmental Education, Forest Conservation, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection
Mission: The Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA) is a U. S. -based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is active in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Our mission is to conserve biodiversity and promote the sustainable use of Amazonian natural resources for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Southeastern Peru is among the most biodiverse places on Earth and boasts a large number of expansive protected areas that shelter more species of plants and animals than almost anywhere else. However, widespread, uncontrolled resource extraction and climate change are presenting ever greater threats to the long-term health of the region’s rainforest ecosystem. Our research, reforestation, and education projects aim to document southeastern Peru’s plant and animal species and monitor their populations in the face of ongoing environmental change, restore degraded forests by building local capacity, and inspire the next generation of community and conservation leaders in the Amazon.
Results: To date we have documented thousands of species of plants and animals throughout the region, monitored the impacts of climate change on their populations, planted thousands of trees to restore degraded rainforest ecoystems, and delivered quality environmental education to some of the Amazon's most disadvantaged children. As the threats facing the Amazon continue to grow and evolve, it's important that we keep this work going.
Target demographics: Protect species, restore rainforest ecosystems, and inspire the next generation of the Amazon's stewards
Direct beneficiaries per year: >1,200 children, 1,000s of trees, and 1,000s of unique and threatened plants and animals
Geographic areas served: Peru's Madre de Dios region, in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon
Programs: Biological research and monitoring, sustainable tropical agriculture, agroforestry, and reforestation, and environmental education projects
Mission: The Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA) is a U. S. -based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is active in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Our mission is to conserve biodiversity and promote the sustainable use of Amazonian natural resources for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Southeastern Peru is among the most biodiverse places on Earth and boasts a large number of expansive protected areas that shelter more species of plants and animals than almost anywhere else. However, widespread, uncontrolled resource extraction and climate change are presenting ever greater threats to the long-term health of the region’s rainforest ecosystem. Our research, reforestation, and education projects aim to document southeastern Peru’s plant and animal species and monitor their populations in the face of ongoing environmental change, restore degraded forests by building local capacity, and inspire the next generation of community and conservation leaders in the Amazon.
Results: To date we have documented thousands of species of plants and animals throughout the region, monitored the impacts of climate change on their populations, planted thousands of trees to restore degraded rainforest ecoystems, and delivered quality environmental education to some of the Amazon's most disadvantaged children. As the threats facing the Amazon continue to grow and evolve, it's important that we keep this work going.
Target demographics: Protect species, restore rainforest ecosystems, and inspire the next generation of the Amazon's stewards
Direct beneficiaries per year: >1,200 children, 1,000s of trees, and 1,000s of unique and threatened plants and animals
Geographic areas served: Peru's Madre de Dios region, in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon
Programs: Biological research and monitoring, sustainable tropical agriculture, agroforestry, and reforestation, and environmental education projects
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