Conservation
We focus our efforts where Indigenous stewardship, biodiversity, and policy converge — protecting what works and regenerating what has been damaged.
Programs Four programs,
Four programs,
one rainforest.
Each program runs its own scientific agenda, partner network, and funding stream. All four share the same four practices: conservation, science, outreach, and storytelling.
Four practices · in every program
Current programs
What we work on.
Stingless Bees is the active program for this season and accepts direct support today. The other three are in active development with Indigenous partners.
Active Stingless Bees
Safeguarding Amazonian stingless bees through species mapping, biochemical analysis of honey, female-led beekeeping programs, and Indigenous-led conservation across Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil.
EDGE Species
Field studies and habitat protection for Evolutionarily Distinct, Globally Endangered species in the Peruvian Amazon — co-led with Asháninka park rangers and university partners.
Medicinal Gardens
Community medicinal gardens and agroforestry plots that combine traditional ecological knowledge with reforestation science to restore degraded land and revive local pharmacopoeia.
Rights of Nature
Policy and legal advocacy that translates field science and Indigenous testimony into recognised rights for ecosystems and species — including the recognition of stingless bees as native Peruvian species under Law 32235 (2025).
Where we work Two countries,
Two countries,
one watershed.
Our fieldwork spans the Peruvian Amazon and the Bolivian Madidi region, in partnership with Kukama-Kukamiria, Asháninka, Shipibo-Konibo, and Ese Ejje communities.
Peru
- Loreto
We work with multiple local communities in Nauta along the Marañón River, including Kukama-Kukamiria groups.
- Junín & Cuzco
We work in the UNESCO-recognised Biosphere Reserve Aviveri-Vraem and buffer zones with Asháninka communities.
- Ucayali
We work with Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous communities.
- Lima
Our headquarters are based in Lima.
Bolivia
- Rurrenabaque
We collaborate with Ese Ejje women in the Parque Nacional y Área de Manejo Integrado Madidi.
Our focus areas
How we work.
Every program is built on these four practices. The programs answer what we work on; the practices describe how.
Science
We design our studies with the people who live in the forest. Field biology, biochemistry, and traditional ecological knowledge sit at the same table.
Outreach
We invest in the next generation of scientists, beekeepers, and community leaders — most of them women — and build the local economies that make conservation viable.
Storytelling
We collaborate with photographers, filmmakers, and writers to tell the story of the Amazon truthfully and at scale.