Many Voices One Story

Amazon Conservation Team Annual Report 2009 The many voices of the Amazon are joining in a global call to arms in defense of the endangered rainforest and the indigenous people who call it home. This is their story.

Table of contents

From the president 3

Voices around the world 4

Voices connecting 6

Voices of innovation 8

Strong voices of leaders 12

Voices of support 16

Highlights 20

Partner organizations 22

Financials 24

Supporters 25

ACT organization 28

2009 Annual Report Cover photo by Fernando Bizerra Jr. From the President

In our connected world, many voices can find expression. Leaders emerge from the most unlikely places, old hierarchies tumble, and new alliances are forged. This past year, global connectedness achieved a kind of critical mass. How else to explain the pace at which the world is now awakening to the story the Amazon Conservation Team has been telling since 1996? Many voices joined ACT in 2009 to help raise the volume on the ongoing story of the Amazon, its people, and the health of the planet. ACT was all over the map in 2009, connecting policymakers and indigenous leaders, sharing proven and replicable models for achieving indigenous empowerment, and partnering in global projects that recognize that traditional lives are sustainable lives. With global climate change accelerating, investment in sustainable models suddenly makes good economic sense. As I write, ACT’s flagship mapping projects throughout Amazonia provide growing numbers of tribes with the documented authority to sit with government officials and business interests and negotiate from strength how their land can best be protected. Enhanced GPS-based tools make it easier than ever for tribal cartographers to input enough data to enable estimates of forest values for the global carbon market, thus adding economic incentives to protect and manage sensitive lands. Recognizing the key role of indigenous women in community health and education, ACT has been an avid supporter of connecting female healers with younger women to share and sustain their vital of nutrition and medicine. We are also encouraged that, increasingly, local governments are recognizing traditional education programs with accreditation and state funding. Today, the many voices of and for the Amazon can be heard around the world. Listen well: the story they tell carries a message for us all.

Sincerely,

Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D., L.H.D. President Voices around the World

“I’m here to help traditional communities In 2009, ACT teamed with the Jane "Chief Almir Surui of told me about Goodall Institute and Google Earth on two continents, Africa and South Outreach to generate a virtual tour working with ACT to map the Surui of communities in Tanzania and America, share experiences and gain a Brazil using GIS technology to fight borders and their struggle to protect their deforestation; this tour was presented greater say in the future of their homes, at the United Nations Framework lands. We want to help our cousins in the Convention on Climate Change in the magnificent Amazon forests and the Copenhagen. As an ACT Advisory Amazon. We believe the forests, including Board member, Goodall lends a inspiring landscapes and forests When ACT introduced Mãori Tohunga/ powerful voice to an increasingly the Amazon and its amazing tribes master carver Wikuki Kingi of New global call to protect endangered of East Africa.” Zealand to Chief Almir Surui at a environments and indigenous including the Surui, are a key element in sustainability conference in 2009, communities. Wikuki Kingi saw the connection the future healing of Mother Earth.” between the struggles of indigenous people half a world apart. “This is an exciting time,” he explains. “I —Jane Goodall —Wikuki Kingi have many carvers and artisans from primatologist, United Nations Messenger of Mãori master carver Peace, ACT Advisory Board member around the Pacific who would love to be involved in this project” to carve Pou-taonga (totems - treasures) that tell the world about the Surui and other and place them along Surui borders as a gesture of solidarity. Fernando Bizerra Jr. from the field Voices connecting ACT employs 85 people, most of them working in VOICES Brazil, , and . Each member of the ACT team n 2009, ACT’s fundamental message of making traditional peoples full partners in the conservation Vasco van Roosmalen Iof the Amazon—for years, a minority opinion—began to reach exponentially increasing audiences. In a leverages expertise and creative thinking to make a real Brazil Program Director world increasingly desperate for clear and functional solutions, ACT’s unbroken record of success through difference in every corner of the Amazon. I recently participated in collaboration now rings true. Connecting tribal leaders and other environmental experts, bringing together a government-organized respected organizations, and finding common ground among indigenous people and governments across seminar on the community

Amazonia, ACT’s story today reaches more ears than at any other time in the organization’s history. Ribeiro Andrea management of indigenous reserves. Several of our long-term indigenous partners presented Standard bearers In 1999, ACT began its Government approved Working with Suriname's the work they have been leading with ethnographic mapping program with one isolated Ministry of Natural Resources, ACT pioneered develop- their communities. What struck me is that indigenous group in the northeast Amazon. Ten years ment of nationally recognized training for indigenous each one independently concluded their later, ACT has carried out mapping and documen- park guards. A 2009 agreement with the government to presentations with a slide filled with logos tation projects with more than 30 partner tribes in extend training to more villages incorporates many more of their partners—a testament to their newly virtually every corner of the Amazon. In 2009, ACT was indigenous communities into stewardship of essential enhanced networking abilities. ACT's goal is recruited to undertake the mapping of all native lands natural resources. to help strengthen our indigenous partners, to of an entire country and to join with two consortiums give them the tools to engage with the outside Strengthening and safeguarding In the seeking conservation of integrated areas of the world on their terms and to link with others Colombian Amazon, ACT has partnered with local indig- Brazilian Amazon. to achieve their goals of protecting their enous communities, the service and the rainforests and strengthening their traditional Global economy In 2009, ACT played a national Amazon region natural resource management communities. Each day we see more proof of central role in the development of the most advanced authority to implement reserve and protected area man- the positive results of this approach. indigenous-led carbon credit project in the Brazilian agement plans and to begin assisting in the monitoring Amazon, collaborating with other NGOs and and protection of five indigenous and protected areas. assisting the Surui people to feature this effort at Additionally, ACT is working with the national rural devel- COP 15, the UN world climate change conference opment authority to collaboratively initiate the process of in Copenhagen. expanding 20 indigenous reserves in three departments.

6 7 Voices of Innovation

“Paradise endangered is not yet paradise lost. “I want to live a traditional life in Together with people like Chief Almir my ancestral homeland in Suriname. Amasina has worked with ACT of the Surui tribe, ACT is using the President Mark Plotkin for years The mapping that ACT does helps my to transmit his plant wisdom to miracles of modern science alongside younger members of his own tribe ACT Advisory Board member since people to protect the medicinal plants and through a longstanding Shamans and 2002, Academy-award winning actor ancient knowledge, tradition and culture. Apprentices program in Suriname. Jeff Bridges understands how ACT’s sacred places that make our life possible Mapping indigenous lands is the innovative mapping projects can help Mixing two worlds results in a powerful crucial first step toward tribal achieve real results for the people of and keep the forest healthy.” empowerment, and ACT helped the Amazon. “I care deeply about the new approach to conservation.” pioneer the concept. fate of these forests,” he says.

—Jeff Bridges —Amasina Academy Award-winning actor, the Trio tribe, Suriname ACT Advisory Board member Mapping: changing the landscape of power VOICES from the field Gwen Emanuels-Smith Map, manage, protect—at the heart of this elegantly simple Suriname Program Director expression of ACT’s mission is an idea so powerful it can change the way Earth looks from space and stop a bulldozer in its tracks. In 2009, ACT was chosen ACT helped pioneer ethnographic land mapping in the Amazon to work with the Suriname

as the first essential step toward empowering indigenous people Josh Knauer government to demarcate 64 percent of the nation’s to identify and protect the rainforests, their ancestral homes. As global carbon markets total land area housing 90 open up, these maps also become vital negotiating tools to establish land values and In 2009, the total amount of indigenous homelands mapped percent of our indigenous brothers and ensure payment to rightful landholders. In 2009, ACT’s lengthy experience in land use sisters. Since we initiated mapping in 2000 by ACT and our partners jumped from 40 million acres to documentation and demonstrated ability to bring indigenous peoples into the conservation in Kwamalasamutu in the southern interior, discussion made it the natural choice of governments and NGO consortiums to replicate more than 60 million acres. the effort has become a powerful tool for amplifying the voices of our indigenous these successes with additional communities overseeing vast tracts of rainforest. As more tribal partners recognize the advantages of working with partners. Under increasing pressure from ACT to map and monitor their homelands, more endangered rainforest comes multinational natural resource extractors, Suriname digitized Working with Suriname’s against the planned construction of dams with under indigenous management. Suriname struggles to regulate rights for government and indigenous and Maroon com- potentially devastating environmental impacts. indigenous lands. Ethnographic mapping munities living on over 26 million acres, ACT has has become a key component of a regional Connecting the dots In 2009, ACT was completed mapping of nearly two thirds of the Amazonian initiative to assess opportunities brought on as a key partner in two USAID-funded Moving forward As a result of the effi- Cartography of a people Millions of acres country’s area as the necessary basis for the even- as well as such threats as resource extraction, consortia working to increase local deforesta- ciency and effectiveness of ACT’s strategies, the of Brazilian rainforest lands inhabited by the tual establishment of . dam building, and climate change. tion prevention capacity and build large-scale state secretary of the environment requested Kaxuyana, Wai-Wai, Txikiyana, Tunayana, and Land rights protected ACT supported our conservation corridors in three major Amazonian that ACT help lead the ethno-environmental Kahiyana tribes have been mapped with ACT’s indigenous partners in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous states of Brazil. ACT’s mapping and diagnostic diagnostic and ethno-zoning process for Wai- guidance, the first step toward significantly Park—with whom ACT mapped the reserve’s entire achievement with the Surui is being applied as a Wai lands, essential for zoning these traditional improving the long-term conservation of an area 7.5 million acres—and helped them rally support keystone for the latter project. territories as protected areas. over twice the size of the state of Maryland.

10 11 Strong Voices of Leaders

ACT cofounder and Vice President “ACT helps connect indigenous women of Programs Liliana Madrigal works “Too many mamas are taking with ACT in-country colleagues and so that they can share their vast traditional their secrets to the grave. Without their indigenous partners to build esteem Working with ACT, ASOMI president and advance human rights among and shamanistic knowledge. Better than voices, we lose hold of the past while Charito Chincunque is a leading women across Amazonia. In 2009, organizer of gatherings in Colombia ACT continued longstanding initiatives anyone, they understand: if you don’t the health of our forest homes declines. that connect women healers with in the Colombian Amazon that apprentices and other women to encourage sharing and transmission have your health—including the health I work to preserve the wisdom of the share vital traditional medicinal and of vital traditional healthcare practices gardening techniques and protect through women healers conferences, of the planet—you are sick. We work grandmothers. In every respect, culture and nature. As awareness mamas and apprentices programs and spreads of the central role of women the installation and maintenance of to give equal voice to women.” they symbolize Mother Earth.” in maintaining healthy traditional medicinal and nutritional gardens. communities, such leadership will continue to develop among ACT’s tribal partners.

—Liliana Madrigal —Charito Chicunque ACT Vice President of Programs president, Union of Women Healers (ASOMI) Connecting people and land ACT continued Good medicine In four remote villages of from the field to expand a biocultural corridor in the Colombian Suriname, ACT supplied all necessary support to com- VOICES Amazon, advancing the connection of indigenous munity clinics that ACT had previ- lands to existing national parks and increasing the pro- ously constructed. This support provided continuous Javier Ortiz Bahamón tection of hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest. opportunities for elder tribal leaders to share ances- Colombia Program Director tral medicinal knowledge with younger generations. Skill building In lands surrounding the Tumu- For the indigenous cultures of cumaque Mountains of northern Brazil, ACT pro- Economic equality In the village of Tepu in the Amazon forests, the right to vided capacity building and institutional support Suriname, ACT provided financial management, prod- oversee their traditional lands in to the two indigenous associations of the region to uct commercialization, and urban marketing training to their natural state is fundamental develop the necessary skills to run their associations, indigenous women to produce and package ground to their identities. The land administer resources, and develop environmental pepper for sale. Their products are now available in determines their paths to learning, to caring protection strategies. the capital city of Paramaribo in a pilot project. for their spirits and bodies. Unfortunately, indigenous peoples have lost huge tracts Traditional healers ACT made possible three Now hear this For the Ingano and Coreguaje of their territories, and this threatens their gatherings of traditional healers, men and women, indigenous communities of the Colombian cosmology and traditional knowledge. The from multiple tribes across the northwest Amazon. department of Caquetá, ACT continued to fully world is trying to reestablish its respect for They shared their successes and struggles. They fund the operations of two indigenous-run radio Sharing traditions, ensuring the nature, a drive accelerated by life-threatening connected in countless ways to better protect their stations that broadcast 40 hours of community future climate change. ACT’s objective in Colombia rainforest lands and cultures. programming weekly. CT’s approach to environmental conservation in the Amazon has has been to work in partnership with indigenous communities to protect their Aalways operated on the assumption that the indigenous people of the territories and, by sharing their ancestral 1 forests know best how to manage and sustain the rainforests. For thousands knowledge of nature, identify new adaptive /3 of the carbon locked up in of years, they have stewarded the land. They depend on its richness for strategies for the world. tropical vegetation in the world is estimated to their way of life. In the face of rapid change and rampant deforestation, ACT supports the people of the Amazon by helping them develop the capacity to be in trees. lead themselves, to determine their own destiny, to combine their wisdom with the best available scientific knowledge, and to forge a new synthesis of cultural

conservation and nature protection. Bill Cameron

14 15 Voices of Support

“Only five percent of the charities we rate have “We've lived in Alaska for over 30 received at least five consecutive four-star evaluations years. In that time, it has changed …. This 'exceptional' designation from Charity dramatically. Earth is a living Navigator differentiates Amazon Conservation Team planet. What happens in the Amazon from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is Moving to Alaska Charity Navigator, America’s largest eventually impacts people everywhere. from the Pacific independent evaluator of charities, worthy of their trust.” Northwest three gave its highest rating to ACT for the That’s why we support ACT.” decades ago, fifth consecutive year, indicating that Janice and Edward ACT consistently executes its mission Todd have watched as change and in a fiscally responsible way, and —Charity Navigator, May 2010 —Janice and Edward Todd outperforms most other charities www.charitynavigator.org ACT supporters, Homer Alaska development followed. Climate change is in America. coming to Alaska, threatening to “cause further warming, raising sea levels, loss of glaciers and loss of habitat for sea mammals,” explains Janice. “Indigenous people possess an invaluable reservoir of traditional knowledge. If we work together,” she says, “more people will become aware of the changes we are making on the entire planet.” The largest rainforest on Earth, A message of the Amazon is also an ecosystem supporting perhaps VOICES of support Hope 30% of the world’s terrestrial species. Arran Stephens he many stories that come out of the President and Founder TAmazon Conservation Team—and Nature’s Path Organic Foods the Amazon—all add up to one message: Spreading the message In 2009, ACT’s as- YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, ACT’s story sistance to the Surui people’s biocultural conser- reaches farther than ever before. A 2009 EnviroKidz Giving ACT makes a real difference to real vation efforts received feature coverage in the Back Award from Nature’s Path, people on the ground across Amazonia. World stage After receiving a coveted San Francisco Chronicle, while ACT’s co-authorship North America's number one Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2008, Working shoulder to shoulder with of research demonstrating the existence of a organic cereal manufacturer, ACT President Mark Plotkin and Vice President tribal leaders, global environmental viable indigenous medical diagnostic system in is helping an ACT-established cooperative Liliana Madrigal were invited to share the story program with the Surinamese state- powers and government agencies, ACT is the Suriname rainforest was a highly accessed of ACT’s work in the Amazon in addresses to entry in the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of sponsored elementary school in the village of implementing real programs to combat the 2009 Skoll World Forum. Meanwhile, at the Kwamalasamutu expand to include 80 more Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. global climate change, advance human 2009 leading edge Bioneers conference, ACT- students. "It means so much to us to be able to rights and promote environmental conservation. A web of voices Thanks to growing numbers Brazil Program Director Vasco van Roosmalen support socially conscious organizations like of supporters using the global power of social was a featured speaker on saving rainforest ACT that are actively working to preserve the In this extraordinary moment, the story of the Amazon could go many networking and digital media sites such as biocultural diversity. environment and improve the sustainability different ways. Only with the support of visionary agencies, organizations and of traditional forest cultures," said Arran individuals can ACT help the people of the Amazon participate in the unfolding Stephens, President and Founder of Nature's story of their ancestral homeland and protect the world’s last great rainforests. Path Organic Foods. "We think our loyal customers who made our donation possible Contact ACT to find out how you can join your voice to ours would be proud of the work that ACT does.” in support of the Amazon rainforest.

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Impacting the Climate Empowering Tribal Change Discussion Communities ACT is playing a central role in the development of ACT built a training facility for Brazil’s Surui people the most advanced indigenous-led carbon credit so that they can educate members of their com- project in the Brazilian Amazon, collaborating with munity and advance the sustainable management other NGOs and assisting the Surui people to of their 612,000- reserve. In addition, ACT is protect over 600,000 acres of rainforest. funding the Surui in their work to collect complete data on the found within their territory.

Advancing the Conservation of ACT supported our indigenous partners in Brazil’s Millions of Acres of Amazonia , assisting in their efforts to Millions of acres of Brazilian rainforest lands – build support against the planned construction of inhabited by the Kaxuyana, Wai Wai, Txikayana, dams with potentially devastating environmental Tunayana and Kahyana peoples – have been impacts. Thanks to this pressure, the environmen- mapped with ACT’s assistance, the first step tal permits needed to proceed with the dams’ toward significantly improving the long-term construction were canceled. conservation of an area over twice the size of the state of Maryland. Sharing Ancestral Knowledge

Working with Suriname’s government and indig- Bento Viana ACT made possible three gatherings of traditional enous and Maroon communities that live on lands healers – both men and women – from multiple tribes covering nearly two-thirds of the country (over 26 across the Colombian Amazon, so that they could million acres), ACT has helped the groups to map share their strengths and struggles and find ways to their traditional lands, a critical step toward the better protect their rainforest lands and cultures. granting of land management rights. Ribeiro Andrea In four remote villages of Suriname, ACT supplied ACT is continuing to expand a biocultural corridor all necessary support to community traditional in the Colombian Amazon, advancing the connec- medicine clinics that ACT previously constructed, tion of indigenous lands to existing national parks and this support provided continuous opportunities and increasing the protection of hundreds of thou- for elder tribal leaders to share ancestral medicinal sands of acres of rainforest. knowledge with younger generations.

20 21 Partner Organizations

Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Associação dos Povos Indígenas do Tumucumaque Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition Google Earth Outreach Ministry of Physical Planning, Secretaria Especial do Meio Ambiente Faculty of Medicine Tumucumaque, Brazil and Environment, McGill University California, USA Land and Forest Management Amapá, Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Montreal, Quebec Paramaribo, Suriname Associação dos Povos Indígenas Jiahui Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente Suriname Conservation Foundation Asociación de Cabildos de Villa Garzón Amazonas, Brazil Consejo Regional Indígena e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis Ministry of Regional Development Paramaribo, Suriname Putumayo, Colombia del Orteguaza Medio Caquetá Amapá & Brasília, Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Associação dos Povos Indígenas Tiriyó, Caquetá, Colombia Tareno ma Wajanaton-Akoronmato (TALAWA) Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas Kaxuyana, e Txikiyana Instituto Centro de Vida Nassy Brouwer Primary School (Organization of Trio and del Pueblo Siona Amapá, Brazil Conservation International Suriname , Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Representatives of Southern Suriname) Putumayo, Colombia Paramaribo, Suriname South Suriname Associação Indígena Hopep (Trumai Community) Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação National Institute for Environment Asociación de Cabildos Inga Kametzá Xingu, Brazil Conservation Strategy Fund da Biodiversidade and Development in Suriname Tropenbos International Colombia del Alto Putumayo California, USA Brasília, Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Bogotá, Colombia Putumayo, Colombia Associação Indígena Moygu ( Community) Xingu, Brazil Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Nature Conservation Division/Natuurbeheer Tropenbos International Suriname Asociación de Cabildos Nukanchipa da Amazônia Brasileira Sustentável do Amazonas Paramaribo, Suriname Paramaribo, Suriname Atunkunapa Alpa Associação Indígena Tulukai (Waurá Community) Amazonas, Brazil Amazonas, Brazil Cauca, Colombia Xingu, Brazil Nature Web UNESCO Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible Instituto del Bien Común Paramaribo, Suriname Paramaribo, Suriname Asociación de Cabildos Associação Portuguesa de Guardas del Sur de la Amazonía Lima, Peru Tandachiridu Inganokuna e Vigilantes da Natureza Putumayo, Colombia Organização Metareilá do Povo Indígena Surui Unidad Administrativa Especial del Sistema Caquetá, Colombia Portugal Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente Rondônia, Brazil de Parques Nacionales Naturales Corporación Reconocer da Amazônia Bogotá, Colombia Asociación de Cabildos Uitoto Batalhão Ambiental – Amapá Bogotá, Colombia São Paulo, Brazil Organización Uitoto del Caquetá, del Alto Río Caquetá Amapá, Brazil Amazonas y Putumayo Unidad de Información Geográfica Caquetá, Colombia Dermatologische Dienst Suriname Instituto Internacional de Educação no Brasil Caquetá, Colombia del Centro de Ecología Bureau voor Openbare Gezondheidszorg Paramaribo, Suriname Brasília, Brazil Caracas, Venezuela Asociación de Médicos Indígenas Kofanes Paramaribo, Suriname Organización Zonal Indígena del Putumayo Putumayo, Colombia Direction regionale de l’environnement Instituto Socioambiental Putumayo, Colombia Unión de Médicos Indígenas Yageceros Cabildo El Portal de Guyane Brazil de la Amazonia Colombiana Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de la Caquetá, Colombia French Guiana Pan American Development Foundation Putumayo, Cauca and Caquetá, Colombia Amazonía Colombiana “La Chagra de la Vida” Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC Putumayo, Colombia Cabildo Inga de Condagua EcoCiencia Washington, DC United Nations Development Program Putumayo, Colombia Quito, Ecuador Patrimonio Natural Paramaribo, Suriname Asociación del Pueblo Kichwa International Ranger Federation Bogotá, Colombia de la Amazonía Colombiana Cabildo Inga Kametzá De Mocoa EcoDecisión United States Agency Putumayo, Colombia Putumayo, Colombia Quito, Ecuador International Union for Conservation Peace Corps for International Development of Nature and Natural Resources Paramaribo, Suriname Washington, DC Asociación Española de Agentes Forestales Cabildo Inga Mandiyaco Faculdade SEAMA Gland, Switzerland y Medio Ambientales Cauca, Colombia Amapá, Brazil Polícia Militar – Amapá Universidad de la Amazonía Granada, Spain Legião Brasileira Amapá, Brazil Caquetá, Colombia Cabildo Kametzá Bijá de Mocoa Forest Trends / Katoomba Group Amapá, Brazil Associação das Comunidades Indígenas Putumayo, Colombia California, USA Protected Area Workers Association Universidade Federal do Amapá e Ribeirinhas Medische Zending Suriname of New South Wales Amapá, Brazil Amazonas, Brazil Cabildo La Cerinda Fundação Nacional do Índio – Amapá Paramaribo, Suriname New South Wales, Australia Caquetá, Colombia Amapá, Brazil University of Amsterdam Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental Kanindé Ministério Público de Santana Red Cross of Brazil Amsterdam, Netherlands Rondônia, Brazil Cabildo La Esperanza Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza Amapá, Brazil Amapá, Brazil Caquetá, Colombia Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia WCS Colombia Associação dos Moradores do Quilombo Ministry of Culture Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Cali, Colombia do Curiaú Cabildos del Resguardo Inga de Yunguillo Fundación Gaia Amazonas Bogotá, Colombia Amapá, Brazil Amapá, Brazil Putumayo, Colombia Bogotá, Colombia WWF Colombia Ministry of Education Royal Tropical Institute Cali, Colombia Associação dos Povos Indígenas do Mapuera Center for Agricultural Research of Suriname Geografische Land Informatie Systemen Bogotá, Colombia Amsterdam, Netherlands Pará, Brazil Paramaribo, Suriname Paramaribo, Suriname

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2009 Revenue Foundations 2009 Expenses Culture Andrew Tobias & Charles Nolan In-Country Grants Management/Operations $100,000 and up $10,000 To $49,999 Anonymous (3) Anonymous (2) United Nations Development Programme Health Corporations ARIA Foundation Robert & Paula Boykin Other Other William M. Cameron Nelson & Michele Carbonell $1,000 To $9,999

FORTIS Consortium The Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation Leonard & Jayne Abess Individuals Biodiversity John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation David & Stephanie Dodson Daniel S. Alegría, MD & Mary Page Hufty, MD

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The Rosalind Douglas Trust Gregory Scott Allen Individuals 2,042,958 59.05% Biodiversity 1,939,801 42% Rainforest Fund Dutch Embassy Anonymous Foundations 717,981 20.75% Health 523,661 11% In-Country Grants 547,353 15.82% Culture 771,350 17% Fred & Karen Schaufeld Sue Erpf Van de Bovenkamp Ayudar Foundation for The Armand G. Erpf Fund Corporations 135,723 3.92% Management/Operations 877,217 19% Skoll Foundation Robert Bass Berry Other 15,476 0.45% Other 544,849 12% Gesso Foundation USAID Black Mariah Total $3,459,490 100% Total $4,656,878 100% Laura & Gary Lauder Boggess Family Foundation LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics $50,000 To $99,999 Jack & Kristina Boykin George Meyer & Maria Semple 2008 2007 2006 2005 Brett Byers Financial HIstory 7 Bar Foundation Revenue 7,984,476 4,580,630 4,611,300 4,860,970 Elizabeth Murrell & Gary Haney Lynda Cameron Corpoamazonía Expenses 5,554,539 4,550,722 4,065,658 3,166,940 Nature's Path Foods, Inc. Yvon Chouinard Everett Dowling Gilman & Margaret Ordway Funds are presented according to Mary Cowan ACT once again earns the highest rating from Charity Navigator, America’s Gwendolyn Grace the accrual method of accounting. largest independent evaluator of charities, for our efficiency in exceeding industry Ward & Mary Paine Robert & Usha Cunningham standards and for outperforming other charities in fiscal standards. Melinda Maxfield Resnick Family Foundation Leslie Danoff & Lawrence Robbins Moore Family Foundation ACT is a member of EarthShare, a federation that represents the nation’s most RSF Innovations respected environmental and conservation charities in hundreds of workplace Tamar Datan & Sandra Shihadeh Wallace Genetic Foundation giving campaigns across the country. ACT participates in the Combined Federal Suriname Conservation Foundation Lynn & King Dickason Campaign (CFC #10410), and state employee charitable campaigns. EarthShare’s Overbrook Foundation Swift Foundation payroll contribution program allows donors to direct their contribution directly Roy & Estrella Dunn to ACT. To find out more about how you and your workplace can support ACT through payroll deductions, please call Dana Milyak at 703-522-4684.

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Margaret Clark, Chairman Karen Allen Marjo de Theije Vasco van Roosmalen, M.Sc. Ana María Chaparro Paulo Afonso Director Actress and teacher Director Emil Roes José Eustiquio Cuellar Ana Paula Albuquerque Heber Adeci Adam Albright Bruce Babbitt Olaf Bánki José Narciso Jacanamijoy Marcos Sebastião Ataíde Director Environmentalist Rosinaldo Almeida Oswaldo Mancilla Paulo Henrique Bonavigo Rachel Albright Robert W. Boykin, CEO Juliano Araújo Irma Mojomboy Director Boykin Enterprises Arlington Headquarters Israel Correa do Vale Junior Ivana Burgos Carmen Moreno Hernesto Cruz Stephen Altschul, Ph.D. Jeff Bridges Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D., L.H.D. Meline Cabral Computational Biologist Actor President Higidio Muchavisoy Moisés Dias Andrade Renata Carvalho Giglio Juan Muyuy William M. Cameron Janell Cannon Tamar Datan, M.Ed. Flávia Dinah American Fidelity Assurance Company Author and illustrator Executive Vice President Carla Coutinho Jairo Quintero Airton Ferreira Liliana Madrigal João Evangelista Ken Cook Jane Goodall Francy Trujillo Roberto Franco Vice President of Programs Environmental Working Group Jane Goodall Institute Arlison Kleber Ángela Vargas Lina María Hurtado Max D. Goldensohn, Ph.D. Walter Isaacson Crisbellt Alvarado-Rezola Márcia Lopes Pan American Development Foundation Aspen Institute Accountant María Elvira Molano Aline Neves Jourdan Clandening Suriname Luciano Mutumbajoy Thomas Lovejoy, Ph.D. Juan Mayr Leonardo Lucena The Heinz Center Environmentalist Communications Associate Gwendolyn Emanuels-Smith, M.Sc. Jefferson Nogueira Wesley Pacheco Director Melinda Maxfield, Ph.D. Gary Nabhan, Ph.D. Elizabeth Erdahl, M.B.A. Alessandro Oliveira Chief Financial Officer Edwilson Pordeus Rachida Alibux Angeles Arrien Foundation Northern Arizona University Sue Pendleton Elisangela Sales Gilbert Alken Elizabeth Murrell Michel Nischan, CEO Susan Gurney Ana Cristina Ramos de Souza Visual Media Specialist Architect Wholesome Wave, LLC Almir Surui Natascha Aroeman Doris Ruales Mark Plotkin, Ph.D. Todd Oldham Karla Lara Otero Luiza Viana Peggy Baisie Allyne Christina Silva Amazon Conservation Team Todd Oldham Studio Director of Finance Juliana Vieira Audrey Berenstein Darwin Torres Dana Milyak Nora Pouillon May Pang Frederico Schlottfeldt Rachelle Bong A Jan, B.Sc. Restaurant Nora and Asia Nora Author and producer Development Manager Omar Zapata Reshma Goeder Karen Schaufeld Rebecca Rose Bernadette Odyniec Director The Columbus Zoo Grants Writer Colombia Sahieda Joemratie Karin Lachmising David Stoup Miranda Smith Marlando Rhule Javier Ortiz Bahamón Trilogy Ventures Miranda Productions IT Administrator Director Eric Sosrojoedo Ward Paine Heather Thomas-Brittenham Elvira Sánchez Yebra Juan Miguel Molina Mayra Sumter Emeritus Actress and activist Development Administrator José Pablo Jaramillo Melvin Uiterloo David Stone Andrew Tobias Jorge Camacho Kenneth Wongsonadi Author and journalist Director of Information Alcira Cao Nathan Zapf Executive Office & Events Coordinator

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