Our Mission​

The Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon is a nonprofit working to conserve biodiversity and other natural resources in the Peruvian Amazon, for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest.

Where We Work

The region of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, has been called the country's 'biodiversity capital'. Watch the video below to meet some of the region's plants and animals and learn why.

Two steps back but sometimes a giant step forward: New protected area declared in the Peruvian Amazon

After pushing for its creation for nearly twenty years, indigenous communities and conservationists in Peru have secured the protection of 1.1 million hectares of rainforest on the border with Brazil. The Yavarí Tapiche Indigenous Reserve will protect the ancestral lands of various indigenous groups, including some still living in voluntary isolation, as well as a nearly incomparably rich diversity of Amazonian plants and animals. The reserve significantly expands a massive regional protected area complex that spans both Peru and Brazil. Read more here.

More than 50% of the Amazon rain forest will be lost by 2030. When will we reach a tipping point?

Leading scientists say that, if deforestation, fires, and climate change pass a certain threshold, then large parts of the Amazon could change to a savannah-like ecosystem. The big question here is what, exactly, is the tipping point, beyond which this change will be irreversible. With some estimates at 25-50% of forest loss in the region, and with the Amazon fast approaching the higher end of those estimates, the future of the world’s greatest rainforest is increasingly precarious. Read more here.

Research

Learn more about our projects to better understand and protect Amazonian biodiversity

Reforestation

Restoring the Amazon through sustainable agriculture, agro-forestry, and planting trees

Education

Delivering environmental education to underserved communities in Peru

Permanent forest dynamics plot established at Finca Las Piedras

September 20 2021 - We’re thrilled this month to inaugurate the ASA’s first forest dynamics plot at Finca Las Piedras! The effort was led by ASA Science Advisory Board member Riley Fortier who, along with a team of research assistants, resident naturalists, and interns, tagged, measured, and identified every plant greater than 10 cm DBH within the plot. The dataset the team created will allow us to monitor how the rainforest at Finca Las Piedras changes over time, from carbon storage to tree growth and mortality to phenology, or the timing of plants’ fruiting and flowering cycles. This is among the first plots of its kind in the region and will allow us to monitor and study the impacts of climate change on the rainforest in the southwestern Amazon.

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