AMAZON PROTECTION FOUNDATION

Who We are

A Distinct Identity

OUR VISION:

The Amazon Rainforest is known as "the Lungs of the World", the destruction of its biodiversity threatens us with the extinction of Humankind.

(Leonardo Barrionuevo - Chairman)

We understand that not-for-profit organizations must join forces with individuals, the private sector and governments in order to fight Global Warming, Climate Change, Poverty and Deforestation, in the Amazon Rainforest.

The Amazon Protection Foundation, is a purpose driven not-for-profit organization designed to fight Global Warming, Climate Change, Poverty and Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It is certified in the US as a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit Foundation.

The Foundation was established by EBCF - EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE CONSERVAÇÃO DE FLORESTAS (Brazilian Rainforest Conservation Company), an organisation with decades of history protecting the rainforest and the local communities that call it home.

OUR MISSION

To promote the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest, through Eco-Services and Related Activities, thus, ensuring:

(i) Creation of Sustainable Protected Reserves and Conservation Units;

(ii) Amazon Rainforest conservation;

(iii) Biodiversity protection (fauna, flora, rivers);

(iv) Sustainable development of traditional local communities;

(v) Offsetting CO2 emissions.

OUR SUSTAINABLE PLATFORM IS BASED ON 4 PILLARS:

ENVIRONMENTAL

- Promoting the conservation of a mosaic of Amazonian Sustainable Reserves

- 50.000 Acres already transformed into protected sustainable reserves

- 2 million acres on our pipeline to create new protected reserves

- Forestry satellite monitoring

- Fauna and flora inventories (species protection)

SOCIAL

- Promoting sustainable development of the local-traditional communities

- Supporting the livelihood of 3.000 families with social projects in the areas of (health, education, woman empowerment, income generation and infrastructure)

CLIMATIC

- REDD+

- Offsetting CO2 emissions on sustainable reserves

- International standards, validation and verification of carbon credits projects

- 3 million tons of CO2 offsettings already validated and certified

ECONOMIC

"Transform natural resources of the Amazon rainforest into income and conservation, according to principles of social and environmental sustainability"

- Sustainable harvesting of Amazonian non-timber forest products

- Carbon Offseting

- Corporate Social Responsibility "CSR"

- Individual Social Responsibility "ISR"

- Scientific research

- Eco-tourism

people first

Building on these pillars, the Amazon Protection Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling it’s Mission, meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and excelling in addressing the Triple Bottom Line of Integrated Reporting; People, Planet, Profit;

PEOPLE: Across all activities, to support the engagement of local communities, co-creating and co-innovating such that the people own the solutions developed and that those solutions make a real and positive difference to their daily lives and open up new life experiences and opportunities.

PLANET: The use of science, technology and innovation to develop solutions to our greatest challenges, and allow us to tackle our biggest opportunities.

PROFIT: Supporting the creation of conditions for sustainably harvesting, processing and supplying Amazonian superfoods to the world.