The Amazon Conservation Team Brazil (ECAM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the biological resources of the Amazon and the people who live there. A branch of the USA-based NGO...
Who is involved in community-based monitoring around the world?
Who is involved in community-based monitoring of forests? Where are they working? And what are they doing?
This section gives an overview of the different actors working on community-based monitoring of forests. To make it easier to find and connect with particular actors, they are classified as:
COMMUNITY: Communities that are implementing forest monitoring initiatives
FACILITATOR: Institutions supporting communities to implement monitoring initiatives
GOVERNMENT: Governments or public agencies engaged with communities in monitoring
DONOR: Donors funding community-based forest monitoring initiatives
Brazilian Biodiversity Fund - FUNBIO
A nonprofit civil association founded in October 1995. Its overall objective is to complement governmental action to conserve and sustainably use the country's biological diversity, and its...
Country of Activity: Brazil
The Centre for Amazonian Workers (CTA) is a non-governmental, non-profit organsation in Brazil. It has a long history of working with extractivist communities in Acre, in particular on rural...
Country of Activity: Brazil
Forests Monitor - FM
Forests Monitor (FM) is an international NGO that works to increase transparency and accountability of the forestry sector in order to improve governance and management of the world’s forests. It...
Country of Activity: Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, International
A nonprofit NGO that was created in 2007. It implements the Bolsa Floresta Programme, and is involved with REDD+...
Country of Activity: Brazil
Global Canopy, formerly known as the Global Canopy Programme, is an innovative environmental organisation that targets the market forces destroying tropical forests. Since 2001, we have been...
Country of Activity: UK, Guyana, Brazil
IDESAM is a not-for-profit NGO that has its headquarters in Manaus, Amazonas state. IDESAM works to promote the valuation and sustainable use of natural resources in the Amazon and to find...
Country of Activity: Brazil
The Institute for Ecological Reseach (IPÊ) is a non-government organization in Brazil devoted to conservation through science, education and sustainable business. IPÊ undertakes research,...
Country of Activity: Brazil
Instituto Piagaçu - IPi
Instituto Piagaçu is an NGO working on natural resource research and conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Since its creation in 2004 the researchers and staff have collated the first detailed...
Country of Activity: Brazil
Jane Goodall Institute - JGI
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a global nonprofit focused on inspiring individual action to improve the understanding, welfare and conservation of great apes. JGI use smartphones with...
Country of Activity: Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Senegal
Kanindé is a Brazilian not-for-profit organisation founded in 1992. It was established by a group of people working with the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people on environmental protection in the...
Country of Activity: Brazil
Project Fauna is a collaborative effort by university researchers and the indigenous peoples of the Rupununi region of Guyana and the Raposa/Serra do Sol region of Roraima, Brazil to describe...
Country of Activity: Brazil, Guyana
Rainforest Foundation UK - RFUK
The Rainforest Foundation UK aims to help indigenous peoples and forest communities around the world gain the land and resource rights they deserve, and in the process reduce deforestation...
Country of Activity: Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Peru
REM operates as an Independent Monitor of Law Enforcement and Governance in the extractive sectors. Through independent monitoring and credible reporting of illegalities and related governance...
Country of Activity: International, Republic of Congo
TFCG works to conserve and restore the biodiversity of globally important forests in Tanzania for the benefit of the present and future generations. Established in 1985, it is the largest...
Country of Activity: Tanzania
ExCiteS is an inter-disciplinary research group at University College London that supports 'extreme citizen science'. It works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and...
Country of Activity: International, Republic of Congo, Brazil, Cameroon
The Department of Technology and Sustainable Development of the University of Twente, based in the Netherlands, hosted the `...
Country of Activity: Guinea-Bissau, India, Mali, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania, Mexico
Woods Hole Research Center - WHRC
The Woods Hole Research Center assesses threats to a safe climate and works with individuals, communities, governments, and NGOs to identify and implement opportunities to stabilise the global and...
Country of Activity: Mexico, Brazil, Peru, USA
WWF-Brazil is a Brazilian NGO dedicated to the conservation of nature. It has the objective of harmonising human activities with the protection of biodiversity and the wise use of natural...
Country of Activity: Brazil