The mission of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is to work in partnership with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in Amazonia. ACT has staff in Colombia, Brazil, Suriname, and the U.S. and is actively working in the southern, northeast, and northwest regions of Amazonia.
ACT wants to help protect and preserve a world as rich and as diverse as the one into which we were born. Your contribution to ACT enables us to help achieve that goal for us, for our children, and for our grandchildren.
The Amazon Conservation Team, an efficient and effective interdisciplinary team of conservation professionals, was founded in 1996 by ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin and conservationist Liliana Madrigal – 2008 co-recipients of the Skoll Foundation’s Award for Social Entrepreneurship. ACT is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by individuals, private foundations, and government grants.
In 2010, ACT received Charity Navigator's coveted 4-star rating for the fifth year in a row for successfully executing our mission in a fiscally responsible way. Only 5 percent of the charities rated have received at least five consecutive 4-star ratings.
