European decisions have a direct impact on forests across the world, including the Amazon. The EU Deforestation Regulation, a law designed to stop products linked to deforestation from entering the EU market, is now at risk of being weakened. At Aktion Amazonas, we’re urging European leaders to keep #HandsOffNature. Sign the petition below and help protect forests, climate, and communities worldwide.

In Madre de Dios, Peru, Indigenous communities are responding to illegal mining and logging through voluntary patrol initiatives. Supported by Aktion Amazonas, Conservación Amazónica (ACCA), and Indigenous organizations, local community members carry out patrol activities to monitor forests and rivers, document illegal operations, and protect their territories. The article focuses on patrol work in the community of Palma Real.

COP30 took place in Belém, Brazil.   COP30 unfortunately became the climate debacle of the year - and rightly so. Despite the Amazon as its backdrop, the host country’s declared goal of achieving zero deforestation by 2030 , and a commendable WWF proposal for a Belém Work Programme on Climate and Nature, the summit failed to raise the ambition needed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, deliver a credible roadmap to stop forest destruction, or secure the finance require

Aktion Amazonas hosted the event “Safety for Environmental Defenders” to present a new manual developed with NGOs and local partners in Peru and Bolivia. The project offers practical tools, risk-mitigation strategies, and recommendations to support those protecting the Amazon and other environmental conflict zones. The event brought together experts to turn research into concrete action.

COP30 opens in Belém, at the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, highlighting the urgent need to link climate action, nature protection, and support for Indigenous communities. The summit could turn commitments into real change by addressing climate, biodiversity, and social development together.

Aktion Amazonas celebrates its first 9th-grade internship with Danish student Priya, who spent a week exploring organizational dynamics, youth engagement strategies, and climate advocacy. Discover how she contributed to real projects and what this milestone means for our mission.

Aktion Amazonas’ youth engagement project in Bolivia empowered young people to protect nature and strengthen environmental education. Through workshops, advocacy, and community activities, participants learned to conserve forests, raise awareness, and make a lasting impact on local communities and biodiversity.

In Bolivia, children and youth are preparing to defend the forest they were born and raised in. They do so with creativity, humor, and theater.

In June, Aktion Amazonas joins the Together4Forests campaign to support the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). This law aims to stop products linked to deforestation and human rights abuses from entering the EU market. Despite strong support, the EUDR faces opposition and delays. Aktion Amazonas urges EU leaders to fully implement the law to protect millions of hectares of forest and the communities that depend on them.

The 4th SAFCA Alliance workshop, in Santiago de Chiquitos (Bolivia) focused on wildfires, organizational topics and future projects.

“¡El agua es vida! ¡El agua es vida!” (“Water is life!”) chanted the children from Santiago de Chiquitos (Bolivia) last March, 2024, on Worl

Today, 1.5 million indigenous people live in the Amazon Rainforest, gathered into 385 different ethnic groups. Despite their large presence, deforestation, fires, mining, and other invasive and extractive activities are pushing them out of their lands and destroying their identity as a whole. Kelly Olivo, an Indigenous rights leader and activist from the Peruvian Shipibo community. // CREDIT: Maia Galmés. “We are one with nature” Kelly Olivo, a young Indigenous rights leader

I efterårsferien drager Isabella Nyborg og Linn Nordlund på henholdsvis 13 og 21 år til Bolivia for regnskovs-NGO’en Aktion Amazonas. De to unge ’ambassadører ’ er begge dedikerede til natur-kampen og vil gerne gøre mere for regnskoven: " Jeg har altid været fascineret af Amazonas og de oprindelige folk, så jeg glæder mig til at rejse til regnskoven i Bolivia med Aktion Amazonas. Jeg vil gerne hjælpe med at bevare naturen og lære, hvordan man beskytter sjældne arter. Jeg håbe