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
This association represents the 800 Brazilian Ashaninka indigenous people who live in the Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, in the State of Acre, Brazil. This group has been widely...
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...
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...
A nonprofit NGO that was created in 2007. It implements the Bolsa Floresta Programme, and is involved with REDD+...
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...
Tebtebba is an indigenous peoples’ organization that was born out of the need for heightened advocacy to have the rights of indigenous peoples respected, protected and fulfilled worldwide....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Metareila was founded in 1988, and was the first indigenous organization created in Rondônia to defend indigenous rights. It works to defend and preserve the cultural and territorial heritage...
The Organisation of the Juruá River Indigenous Peoples (OPIRJ) was founded in 1999. It operates in five municipalities in the state of Acre and involves 11 indigenous peoples.
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...
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...
The Department of Technology and Sustainable Development of the University of Twente, based in the Netherlands, hosted the `...
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...
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...