ACATE AMAZON CONSERVATION INC
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Mission Statement
Sustaining the Amazon with its indigenous people.
About This Cause
Acaté is a non-profit conservation organization based in the United States and Perú that operates in close partnership with the Matsés indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest. The Matsés live along remote tributaries of the Javari river in the frontier divide of northeastern Perú and Brazil. The Matsés safeguard a critical conservation corridor comprising over 1.5 million hectares of intact primary rainforest and shield some of the last remaining uncontacted tribal groups in isolation from unwanted encroachment from the outside world. Our on-the-ground initiatives with the Matsés in the domains of cultural preservation, sustainable economic development, health, native language education, governance, territorial and ecologic protection are capacity-building and designed to support their self-sufficiency and independence as they adapt to the outside world. All of our initiatives are developed with, led, and implemented by the Matsés indigenous people. Operating on the frontlines of conservation for a decade, Acaté’s initiatives have included the first indigenous medicine encyclopedia that received wide international acclaim as well as projects with original methodology in sustainable economic development, traditional medicine, medicinal agroforestry, nutritional diversity, regenerative agriculture, biodiversity inventory, education, participatory mapping, native language literacy, governance, integrated aquaculture systems, and protection of uncontacted tribal groups in isolation. In 2019, the Matsés and Acaté completed a five-year undertaking to map and demarcate, for the first time, their ancestral territories comprising 3.7 million acres of rainforest. The resultant maps, written in their language, are comprehensive cartographic records of their territory, history, land use, and culture. Recently, Acaté and Matsés leadership coordinated the relief effort for the Matsés during the COVID-19 pandemic. The development and implementation of each field initiative is guided by the Matsés leadership and communities. Our field reports provide a level of transparency and accounting that is unparalleled in conservation.