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The mission of the Amazon Conservation Team is to work in partnership with indigenous people in conserving , health, and culture in tropical America. Our Google collaboration is characteristic of ACT’s many successes: bringing unlikely partners together and creating alliances that no one had previously envisioned. L E T T E R F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T

Unlike the content of almost every other academic Forward 20 years, and Schultes’ teachings were The mission of the Googlers – as they refer to course I ever took, much of what I learned in my serving as a wellspring for the core principles themselves – was to teach the Suruí how to better first class has remained with me. of the Amazon Conservation Team. So when map their lands, but that turned out to be just The teacher of this course was Dr. Richard Evans the selfsame Kofan approached ACT five years half of the equation. While the Suruí did indeed Schultes, and one of his major premises was that ago, seeking help to establish the first rainforest learn much, they in turn taught the Googlers history has been written by those who do not fully preserve to protect yoco and other essential how to better read the forest: how a dip in the canopy sometimes indicates a different soil type comprehend the relationship between plants and healing plants, we and our partners took rather than the presence of a stream, or how human affairs. He taught us that the American determined action and persevered through grassy areas are sometimes savannas rather Revolution was, in some ways, a battle over trees many setbacks. On June 12th, 2008, the 25,000 than recently deforested tracts. (whoever controlled access to the white pines of acre Orito Ingi-Ande Medicinal Plant Sanctuary New England had the best ship’s masts and thus was officially declared by the Colombian This type of collaboration and reciprocity is a ruled the seas); that a major cause of the fall of government with the direct collaboration of hallmark of ACT’s many successes: bringing both the ancient Greek and Roman empires was local indigenous groups and ACT. unlikely partners together and creating alliances deforestation (the armies and navies of these that no one envisioned. In this case, bringing the ancient powers could not fight without wood any In all of its programs, ACT works to combine best minds of Silicon Valley to the Amazon – and that ancestral indigenous conservation more than the American armed forces can do the best minds of the Amazon to Silicon Valley. understanding with the power of modern battle without petroleum); and that many if not Make no mistake: ACT and our tribal NGO and technical tools. When the folks at Google government partners face daunting challenges all of the world’s major religions may have had Earth held their first symposium on using their including climate change, deforestation, a global their origin in the consumption of consciousness- application to make the world a better place, scramble for timber, and skyrocketing fuel prices. heightening plants. ACT was the first environmental organization I am often asked: how can an organization like they called. Because of our demonstrated ACT hope to succeed when confronting such At the same time he was teaching us to rethink abilities to work in true partnership with colossal obstacles? history, Professor Schultes was also lecturing to Amazonian peoples, they wanted to learn more us about sacred plants of the northwest Amazon, about our unique methodology, which we had Over 2000 years ago, when Hannibal prepared species that seemed much less likely to ever already used to help local tribal partners and to cross the Alps, he was told there was no way appear in western history or medical texts. governments improve the protection of over he could succeed. In one of the most famous There was the “vine of the soul”, now such a 40 million acres of ancestral rainforest. rejoinders of all time, he replied: New Age favorite that it is sold over the internet; Aware that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the sangre de grado, currently employed by of has declared “digital inclusion”– giving “We will find a way, or we will make one!” Colombian physicians to treat a variety of all segments of society access to new tools of ailments; and the yoco vine – the morning brew technology – a national priority, we invited the of the Kofan Indians, who find coffee a decidedly leaders of Google Earth to accompany us to inferior substitute. the western Amazon to work with the Suruí tribe. Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D. A B O U T T H E A M A Z O N C O N S E R V A T I O N T E A M

Amazon Conservation Team: has picked up, particularly in the southern from the outside world until just two years Effective and Cost-Effective part of the Basin. There are indeed reasons ago, the Suruí have defended their land Rainforest Conservation for pessimism: notably, the world’s seemingly and their forest against outside forces. insatiable demand for soy, which has resulted After a long hiatus, the Amazon is back in the almost complete deforestation of the The indigenous groups know and love in the news. Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the name of these forests, and will lay down their lives which in Portuguese means “great forest.” to protect them. They understand how to During the 1980s, stories about the world’s both protect and sustainably use these greatest rainforest were everywhere, from There is only one Great Forest left in the ancestral lands much better than do most the cover of Time Magazine to the new age state of Mato Grosso, and that forest offers university-trained ecologists and agronomists. neo-shamanic journals that lined the checkout an invaluable lesson in how to save the Yet these groups have – until relatively counter at the old health food stores. Amazon. That great forest is the Xingu recently – been overlooked, ignored, and There were those at the time who felt that Indigenous Reserve, home to 14 indigenous even dispossessed by the outside world, the environmental movement should not groups. Within the Xingu, the rainforest including the conservation community. focus on the rainforest because we had to stretches from one reserve boundary to the solve the world’s population crisis first. other. Outside the reserve, the soy fields The major focus of the rainforest conservation Today, this type of thinking is echoed by stretch to the horizon. community has been the establishment of some who contend that we cannot worry national parks and other protected areas. about the rainforest until we have solved The story repeats itself in southwestern The best known and most successful example the challenge of global warming. Of course, Brazil in the state of Rondônia with the in the western hemisphere is that of Costa these are false dichotomies: overpopulation Suruí people. Images from space tell Rica, where an excellent park system has has been a factor in rainforest destruction, the same story as that of Mato Grosso: generated enormous revenues from an ever and rainforest destruction – according to a the Suruí territory – once part of a contiguous increasing number of ecotourists. There are recent article in The Economist – has been forest that covered the distance from no similar successes yet in the Amazon, a major cause of global warming. London to Constantinople (in the leading some development planners to memorable words of Sir Arthur Conan conclude that mega-infrastructure projects Nonetheless, the stories on the Amazon these Doyle) – has been reduced in size to a mere and intensive agriculture are the only paths days more often than not convey a sense of half million hectares, surrounded by open to using local resources for the benefit dire hopelessness as the pace of destruction deforestation. Yet despite little or no help of the local populace. Furthermore, colossal sums have been raised who will defend the rivers from which they manage, and protect their lands in an entirely in the name of protected areas in Amazonia. drink and the forests in which they live by new way – merging specialized ancestral land In spite of this, most protected areas are legal action, backed up by shotgun, bow, management knowledge and 21st century poorly protected, if at all. In fact, some and poison-tipped arrow? technology. In , the Trio Indians protected areas have no park guards in are working with the national government the vicinity! This is not to say that national parks are not to protect their ancestral forests, home of important: they are, but they require better the headwaters of the Suriname River, And, despite the monies raised to establish management to succeed as conservation which ultimately produces 50 percent of these protected areas, national parks still units. But indigenous lands – four or five the country’s income. And in the Colombian cover a relatively small part of the Amazon, times the size of the national parks – Amazon, local tribespeople are collaborating ranging from less than 1 percent in Guyana require more attention and more support. with the national park service to produce to a more common 8 percent in Brazil. Fortunately, in the an entirely new category of protected area Indigenous lands (the forests either owned Amazon are taking the lead in seizing that protects plants, animals and sacred sites or claimed by local tribespeople) cover over control of their own environmental and as well. 20 percent – and these indigenous territories, cultural destiny, not only for their own good, despite having excellent forest cover and but for the benefit of everyone. Whether it is Indigenous peoples are not the only answer having the equivalent of park guards already protecting genetic resources for agriculture to saving the Amazon, but they and their in place, have received little support from or medicine in these forests, or protecting forests and their knowledge represent the conservationists. Put in concrete terms: the headwaters of rivers that support single best and most overlooked opportunity where are illegal goldminers, drug lords, commercial fisheries or supply hydro-power to protect enormous tracts of South American or even gunrunners more likely to construct to dams or protect standing forests whose rainforest. Now is the time to work in clandestine airstrips: in the Tumucumaque destruction would further exacerbate climate partnership with these peoples – a partnership National Park, an area the size of Belgium change, indigenous forests in all likelihood that also must include state and national which up until recently had no park are going to be around longer than poorly governments – to make this conservation guards living within the borders, or in protected public lands that represent the dream a reality. the neighboring Tumucumaque Indigenous tragedy of the commons. In Brazil, the Reserve – equal in size, but inhabited by Suruí have partnered with the Brazilian 2,000 indigenous community members government and with Google Earth to map, A B O U T T H E A M A Z O N C O N S E R V A T I O N T E A M

Map, Manage and Protect ACT’s signature Shamans and Apprentices organization excels, as compared to other ACT collaborates with indigenous peoples program enables elder shamans to pass charities in America, in allocating and of Amazonia to create state-of-the-art land down their knowledge of traditional healing growing its finances in the most fiscally use maps for indigenous rainforest lands to younger apprentices. ACT’s support of responsible way possible. ACT is also a in Brazil, , Suriname and border this program includes stipends to apprentices member of Earth Share, a U.S.–based areas. These maps are necessary to during their training, as well as funding to network of the world’s most respected demonstrate the inherent right of these maintain medicinal plant gardens, purchase environmental and conservation peoples to manage their traditional lands notebooks and cameras to record lessons, organizations that itself has garnered four in accord with national governments. and travel to participate in health brigades stars from Charity Navigator. And as a To date, we have mapped and improved and meetings. recent winner of a Skoll Award for Social protection for more than 40 million acres Entrepreneurship, ACT is proud of the toward our goal of 140 million acres. We make our donors’ way that our innovative strategies strongly In addition, we are working with tribes to contributions count leverage donor funding. design and implement comprehensive and Global warming – climate change – is today’s sustainable management strategies and most urgent environmental cause. For that integrated protection plans for all mapped reason, we spend our money where it territories by 2012. counts. Most of our people and resources are in – not in a pricey Preserve, Strengthen Washington, DC office building. In fact, and Promote our headquarters in Arlington, Virginia are This long-term initiative works to foster rather humble. We rent space above a kebab greater autonomy and self-sufficiency joint. As a result, we are one of the nation’s for indigenous tribes as well as preserve top-performing charities. For 2007, Charity their traditional heritage and knowledge. Navigator, America’s largest independent To these ends, ACT sponsors and facilitates evaluator of charities, conferred its highest inter- and intra-tribal exchanges, traditional rating on ACT based on organizational health clinics and brigades, and sustainable efficiency and capacity for the third year development efforts. in a row. This means that ACT as an

600,000 acres Googled

Satellite image shows the stark contrast in the Brazilian rainforest: land cleared for large-scale monoculture cultivation halts precisely at the Surui indigenous reserve borders. M E A S U R A B L E S U C C E S S

ACT is working with Google Earth to train indigenous people to use internet tools to better manage and protect their forests and improve their lives.

When Chief Almir Suruí first encountered Google Earth, he did what everyone does. 1989 He Googled his home – 600,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in northwestern Brazil. Today Google, in partnership with ACT, is helping the Suruí tribe use technology to protect their territories from illegal mining and logging. ACT and the Suruí people gave Google a list of coordinates where it would be helpful to have better images, allowing Google to work with satellite providers to improve image resolution in some of the most remote parts of the Amazon. 2001

The Suruí call Google ragogmakan–meaning the “messenger.” With ACT’s and Google’s help, the Suruí can now log on to Google Earth and monitor images of the rainforest in detail – looking for evidence of new logging or other illegal encroachment. Chief Almir Suruí and the Suruí tribe have become quite advanced

2006 in their use of mapping and GPS applications, and ACT is dedicated to supporting their technology efforts. They are using Google to help spread their message that Satellite images since 1989 show encroaching there can be a standing intact forest that contributes to peoples’ well-being – deforestation halted at the including economic well-being. For this, the Suruí have initiated reforestation Suruí homelands. projects, as well as other forest income-generating activities, and will use their skills with Google to help attract support to their efforts. M E A S U R A B L E S U C C E S S

ACT completed the expanded and fully updated land use and risk maps of the traditional territory of the indigenous Trio people of Suriname.

Our Map, Manage and Protect initiative is an extensive, multi-year strategy to collaborate with indigenous peoples of Amazonia to improve the protection of 140 million acres of indigenous rainforest lands in Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, and their respective border areas. A second goal of this initiative is to design and implement comprehensive and sustainable management strategies and integrated protection plans for all mapped territories by 2015.

In 2007, we came closer to our goal by expanding and fully updating land use and risk maps of the traditional territory of the Trio people of southern Suriname, totaling 6 million acres. These maps form the basis for an indigenous-managed land protection system and were the product of over a year’s labor by indigenous field researchers, who were guided technically by ACT staff. ACT and our tribal partners made use MASSACHUSETTS of recent improvements in GPS/GIS technology to help the researchers more thoroughly Six million acres is the map out risk areas and identify size of Massachusetts and R.I. Rhode Island combined. protection priorities. 6 million acres mapped

With ACT’s guidance and technical assistance, culturally robust

ACTAmazonian completed indigenous the expanded communities and fully create updated highly land detailed use and land risk mapsuse and of therisk traditional maps of their territory ancestral of the lands Trio andindigenous then design people of Scomprehensiveuriname. plans to manage and protect those territories. 2007 Milestones

Map, Manage and Tumucumaque Indigenous Park. to lead land management activities which this site is located, achieving Protect Initiative These vigilance posts facilitate and in their community. The seven park a key step towards the establishment ACT brought together the Suruí tribe expand border surveillance while guards are receiving training in of a continuous conservation corridor and the leadership team of Google Earth supporting expeditions developed by equipment use and maintenance, spanning the San Miguel Indigenous to create land use and protection maps local indigenous park guards. The park and are participating in a regional Reserve and the Alto Fragua Indi for over half a million acres of rainforest vigilance coordinators who help manage biodiversity assessment project. Wasi National Park. lands across 26 villages. The project has the Tumucumaque protection effort empowered Chief Almir Suruí to declare are trained by ACT and headquartered ACT constructed a first and central Preserve, Strengthen and Promote Initiative and enforce a total ban on logging. ACT at the ACT-sponsored Center for the indigenous guard post in the is now helping the Suruí develop a sus- Protection and Monitoring of Indigenous Surinamese interior. ACT continues to increase the tainable management plan for some of Lands in Macapá at the mouth of autonomy of six Colombian indigenous the most threatened forests the Amazon. The “Macaw Salt Lick” is a site associations, and worked to bring official in the entire Amazon. of special cultural importance for the Adjacent to the Tumucumaque Ingano people in Colombia. recognition to a seventh – that of the Kofan indigenous communities of the In the northern Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous Reserve, across the border ACT enabled the Colombian indigenous Putumayo. Originally founded with ACT’s ACT sponsored the construction of in Suriname, ACT trained the first group association Tandachiridu Inganokuna to support, these associations include five two indigenous vigilance posts in the of Surinamese indigenous park guards purchase the species-rich area in tribes in three provinces. To support the tribes’ land and To help resolve land rights issues In Brazil’s Tumucumaque Indigenous tribes’ autonomy in land oversight and cultural protection efforts, ACT in southern Suriname, ACT partnered Park, ACT provides ongoing customized conservation processes. Now they can trains the communities in financial with nine Trio villages to assess their training workshops to tribal leaders to conduct their own surveillance activities resource management, governance, economic situation in terms of teach them the skills needed to operate and communicate with governmental land management and community conservation and sustainable their associations, administer their and non-governmental institutions to development planning, and development. Using basic social resources, and generate environmental denounce unauthorized logging, mining ethnoeducation. and economic indicators, this baseline protection strategies. The courses and other activities that damage the study provides information not further enable the associations to Park’s environment. ACT sponsored the activities of currently available through Suriname’s manage their own administration UMIYAC and ASOMI, two unions government offices. In addition, ACT and solicit support for their In the Aucaner Maroon community of traditional healers in Colombia. presented findings of a comprehensive conservation projects. of Gonini Mofo of Suriname’s interior, Through UMIYAC, 30 shamans and survey of ethno-ecology to ACT established a traditional health 40 shaman’s apprentices of five tribes three Wayana communities to help In Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park, clinic to complement three existing clinics regularly visit outlying communities the tribe with forest protection and ACT handed over implementation of in neighboring indigenous communities. that have little or no access to management planning. monitoring and land management to health services. ASOMI is the first the Park’s indigenous organizations formal alliance of female medicinal by donating its Canarana field office. practitioners in the Colombian Amazon. This was an important step toward the A hospital built from rainforest materials

ACT Board member Bill Cameron on site in the remote indigenous village of Kwamalasamutu, Suriname, visiting the location of a new long-term care facility for treatment by expert traditional healers. M E A S U R A B L E S U C C E S S

ACT funded the construction of a new shaman’s apprentice hospital in the northeast Amazon. Directed by the shamans themselves, the hospital works in partnership with the western medical clinic next door.

The health of the Amazon rainforest is irrevocably intertwined with the health of the indigenous people who live there. When indigenous communities thrive, they are better able to advocate for themselves and the rainforest ecosystem. ACT’s Shamans and Apprentices program prevents the disappearance of by encouraging young apprentices to learn from elder shamans and to preserve the knowledge of plant-based medicines from the rainforest. In 2007, ACT continued its efforts to expand healthcare access to these communities and to preserve the extraordinary healing wisdom and practices of Amazonian tribes.

These twin efforts merged in the remote Surinamese indigenous village of Kwamalasamutu. With financial backing from ACT, community residents built a new hospital from rainforest materials. This hospital is an extended care facility for patients requiring more attention than they are able to receive by visiting the nearby clinic. The hospital is seen as a model to provide improved healthcare based on traditional methods; serves as a means for shamans to transmit their knowledge to their apprentices; and is serving as a prototype that ACT expects to see replicated in other Amazonian locales. M E A S U R A B L E S U C C E S S

ACT helped form the first formal alliance of female traditional medicinal practitioners in Colombia.

Forty elderly women of five indigenous communities sought to become the first Colombian formal alliance of women healers. With legal support from ACT, the mamas autonomously forged a union that is legally recognized by the Colombian authorities, the Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de la Medicina Tradicional (ASOMI).

Through ASOMI, the women healers now are well-poised to transmit their healing wisdom and practices to apprentices, to increase their production of handicrafts as a sustainable income generator, and to develop their forest property and traditional agriculture farm as an eco-tourism facility for the use of all indigenous partners and the general public. 40 women healers working together

With ACT’s support, the female practitioners of five tribes of the Colombian Amazon have united to bring better healthcare to their communities and ensure the transmission of their ancestral medical knowledge across generations. 60 indigenous park rangers trained

Indigenous park guards trained in ACT’s annual ranger courses provide "eyes and ears" in on-the-ground protection of millions of acres of Amazon rainforest. M E A S U R A B L E S U C C E S S

ACT held its third annual Indigenous Park Guard Training and Certification Course for the Brazil-Suriname border region.

Large sections of the Amazon rainforest are under steady assault from illegal logging and gold mining operations. Many areas are pocked by the illegal airstrips of drug traffickers. Accurate land demarcation and mapping is not enough to preserve these lands. Vigilant border protection is vital. In 2007, ACT – in cooperation with the International Ranger Federation and Brazilian national agencies – held its third annual park guard training and certification course for indigenous representatives of the Brazil-Suriname border region. This brings the number of trained guards to over 60 from nine tribal groups.

The guards study cultural and environmental conservation, environmental and indigenous law, cartography and ethnocartography, environmental protection strategies and guidelines, first aid, firefighting and fire management, infrastructure maintenance, radio communication, and conflict resolution. ACT also holds a similar yearly course for representatives of Brazilian state agencies and other institutions. Together, these guards enhance the conservation of at-risk areas in northern Brazil.

ACT aims to educate and train over 50 indigenous tribes in management and vigilance services by 2015 – helping to ensure that their forests and cultures remain intact. Our goal is to empower indigenous communities to insert themselves into modern society on their own terms, to communicate their vision and solutions, and to address the threats that confront them and the biodiversity of the Amazon. P A R T N E R S I N S U C C E S S

Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Asociación de Cabildos Tandachiridu Medische Zending Suriname Unidad Administrativa Especial Faculty of Medicine Inganokuna Paramaribo, Suriname del Sistema de Parques Paramaribo, Suriname Caquetá, Colombia Nacionales Naturales Batalhão Ambiental - Amapá National Institute for Environment and Bogotá, Colombia Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental Amapá Brazil Development in Suriname Kanindé Paramaribo, Suriname Unión de Médicos Indígenas Yageceros de Rondônia, Brazil Cabildo Inga Kamtzá De Mocoa la Amazonia Colombiana Putumayo, Colombia Nature Conservation Division Caquetá, Colombia Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de la Paramaribo, Suriname Medicina Tradicional Cabildos del Resguardo Inga de Yunguillo United Nations Development Program Mocoa, Colombia Putumayo, Colombia Nature Web Paramaribo, Suriname Paramaribo, Suriname Associação dos Povos Indígenas Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition United States Agency for International do Tumucumaque and Environment, McGill University Organização Metareilá do Povo Indígena Development Tumucumaque, Brazil Montreal, Quebec Suruí Washington, DC Rondônia, Brazil Associação dos Povos Indígenas Tiriyó, Consejo Regional Indígena del Orteguaza Universidad de la Amazonía Kaxuyana, e Txikiyana Medio Caquetá Organización Zonal Indígena Caquetá, Colombia Amapá, Brazil Caquetá, Colombia del Putumayo Putumayo, Colombia Universidade Federal do Amapá Associação Indígena Hopep Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible Amapá, Brazil (Trumai Community) del Sur de la Amazonía Pan American Development Foundation Xingu, Brazil Putumayo, Colombia Washington, DC World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Brazil) Associação Indígena Moygu Corporación Reconocer Peace Corps Brasilia, Brazil (Ikpeng Community) Bogotá, Colombia Paramaribo, Suriname Xingu, Brazil Fundação Nacional do Índio - Rondônia Polícia Militar - Amapá Associação Indígena Myrená Rondônia, Brazil Amapá, Brazil (Kamayurá Community) Xingu, Brazil Fundação Nacional do Índio - Amapá Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Amapá, Brazil (REVECOM) Associação Indígena Tulukai Amapá, Brazil (Waurá Community) Geografische Land Informatie Systemen Xingu, Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Stichting Jeugdtandverzorging (Youth Dental Hygiene Organization) Asociación de Cabildos indígenas Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Paramaribo, Suriname del pueblo Siona Recursos Naturais Renováveis Putumayo, Colombia Amapá & Brasília, Brazil Tareno ma Wajanaton-Akoronmato (TALAWA) (Organization of Trio and Asociación de Cabildos Nukanchipa Instituto Nacional de Educação no Brasil Wayana Representatives of Southern Atunkunapa Alpa Suriname) Cauca, Colombia International Ranger Federation South Suriname F I N A N C I A L S B

FY 2007 REVENUE TOTAL: $4,580,630

A FOUNDATIONS $1,630,212 36% B INDIVIDUALS $1,493,568 33% C GOVERNMENT $1,352,911 30% D OPERATING RESERVE $50,000 1% E OTHER $53,939 1% C

TOTAL $4,580,630 100% A

E D

B

FY 2007 EXPENSES TOTAL: $4,550,722

A BIODIVERSITY $ 2,142,528 47%

B MANAGEMENT/OPERATIONS $ 871,212 19% A C CULTURE $ 842,889 19%

D HEALTH $ 694,093 15% C TOTAL $ 4,550,722 100%

Audited financial statements available upon request.

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