Acaté Amazon Conservation Information

Acaté brings much needed support to the struggling indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon. Increasingly pressured and threatened by extraction industries such as petroleum, timber, and biopiracy, our organization seeks to provide regenerative alternatives to these ecologically and socially damaging industries. Working directly with the Matsés people, who inhabit the largest indigenous reserves in Peru, we are implementing strategic programs that provide much-needed revenue without destroying their land and chosen way of life. By helping the Matsés, and other indigenous peoples of the Amazon, to maintain a more sustainable and harmonious way of life, both their culture and the ecology of their territory can be protected and nurtured.