“¡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

Alarming drought in Bolivia push Aktion Amazonas to implement projects on climate resilience and rapid emergency support.

Víctor Zambrano is an environmental advocate who faces constant threats for defending the Amazon against those who seek to exploit it

Farmers from the Chiquitano forest are replanting tree species to combat deforestation, after many of them have died because of the drought.

The job of a forest ranger is one that varies widely depending on location, but it is rarely considered life-threatening, unlike professions such as police officers or firefighters. However, deep within the Amazon Rainforest, where the stakes are high and the dangers are real, the role of a forest ranger takes on an utterly dangerous dimension. Illegal mining activity at the edge of the Madre de Dios river in the Peruvian Amazon. // CREDIT: Maia Galmés Feuer (AKAM) The protec

Aktion Amazonas celebrates 10 years of fighting for the Amazon with greetings from our Director and Co-founder, partners and CISU - Civil Society in Development - Denmark's largest memberbased organisation for organisations engaged in global civil society work A MESSAGE FROM CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF AKTION AMAZONAS: In 2014, Aktion Amazonas convened its inaugural general assembly in premises borrowed from Care Denmark. Present were Bolivia’s ambassador and a group of commit

SAFCA is a strategic alliance that seeks to protect biodiversity and support indigenous populations in the fight against deforestation

Indigenous women and youth in the Bolivian area of Bajo Paraguá use cameras to show their identity and share their life, values and needs through pictures Indigenous women from the Municipal Protected Area of Bajo Paraguá in Bolivia participated in this project. // CREDIT: FCBC It is often hard to hear firsthand stories, especially when there is a language and culture barrier between the voices to be heard and the ones who can listen. It is from this communicative gap that FC

42 mammals have been identified through photo traps installed by ACEAA in the Bolivian Amazon.

Sammen med tre sydamerikanske organisationer etablerer Aktion Amazonas alliancen SAFCA, som skal samarbejde om bevarelse af Amazonas

Bønder og oprindelige folk i Bolivia lever i frontlinjen af de store skovbrande, som hvert år ødelægger millioner af hektar skov. For at bes