“The defense of nature and human rights is not only facing Indigenous peoples. It is for everyone to face worldwide.”
– Lineth Calapucha, Kichwa leader from Pastaza

We’re releasing a powerful new video that explains how, from Ecuador to Peru, from Brazil to Colombia, the movement to protect the Amazon can move resources back into the hands of Indigenous people and forest protectors as they exercise their own right to organize, defend themselves, and respond to crises.

We believe grant-making should be an act of solidarity, not a transactional exchange.

For the Amazon Defenders Fund, mobilizing funds is about practicing reciprocity and expressing gratitude for everything that peoples of the Amazon Basin do for all life on the planet and for their own vision of the world.

This is the vision of our Amazon Defenders Fund, which made 109 grants across the Amazon just in the last six months.

We hope you’ll watch the video! It’s inspiring, and it features communities we have been working with across the Amazon.