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Amazon Conservation Team: ACT Home
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is to work in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health, and culture in tropical America.
Biodiversity Protection
The term biodiversity corresponds to a concept of nature where all living things and beings have intrinsic worth and importance. One of the Amazon Conservation Team’s highest priorities is to safeguard the biological diversity of the Amazon and other ecosystems of tropical and sub-tropical America.
In our project areas, we recognize the inextricable link between the survival of the forest and the survival of the local forest culture—what we term "biocultural" diversity. ACT’s experience has taught us that strong and thriving indigenous cultures, with national recognition of their claim to these lands, is the key to biodiversity conservation in many areas where we work. The goal of many of our projects is to protect biological diversity by strengthening local culture and building local conservation capacity.
Contact
- The Ethnobiology and Conservation Team
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- Arlington Virginia
- United States 22201
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- +1.7035224684
