Protecting the Forests and People of the Upper Amazon
Empowering Indigenous Tribes
We partner with indigenous communities and their federations to promote sustainable and profitable livelihoods, while strengthening stewardship of their lands and adjacent protected areas. We pride ourselves on the time spent in the most remote and difficult to access parts of the Amazon headwaters, working to protect the forests and way of life of the settled and isolated indigenous tribes who live there.
In Focus
Ensuring Community in Initial Contact Secures Title to Ancestral Lands
Among our most important projects is working with the Ministry of Culture and Indigenous federations to help the Amahuaca community of Alto Esperanza make history by becoming Peru’s first community in initial contact to secure title to their lands. The process is complicated by overlapping land claims and forestry concessions granted illegally during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Empowering Indigenous Women Program
The Indigenous Women Program (PMI, in Spanish) was created in the Ucayali Region under the leadership of the Regional Organization AIDESEP Ucayali (ORAU, in Spanish) in order to organize and strengthen Indigenous women from Ucayali in the defense of their rights, culture and territory. Upper Amazon Conservancy has started an important partnership with ORAU and local Indigenous federations to strengthen, promote and support female leaders in the Yurúa region of Peru and Brazil.
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