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A Bold Vision to Protect 14 Million Acres

The Amazonian Platform is a collaborative alliance of Indigenous nationalities and local governments working to protect 14 million acres of Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest—vital for the world’s climate and biodiversity.
For more than a decade, Nature and Culture has partnered with these local leaders to establish a connected network of protected areas across three provinces, with the ultimate goal of spanning all six provinces of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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+14 MILLION

ACREES PROTECTED

KEY SPECIES

Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), Jaguar (Panthera onca), Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), Military Macaw (Ara militaris), White-bellied Spider Monkey (Ateles belzebuth)

2.8 BILLION

TONS OF CO2 EMISSIONS AVOIDED

ECO-REGIONS

Tropical rainforest, Semi-humid Amazon lowlands, Páramo, Cloud forest, and Sub-Andean Mountain ranges. 

A Collaborative Effort to Protect the Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon faces immense pressure and complex issues that are too great for one response alone. Lasting solutions depend on collective action and a shared vision. To meet this challenge, Indigenous nationalities and provincial governments have come together for the first time through the Amazonian Platform.


This innovative union promotes coordinated action to conserve and manage 14 million acres of the country’s largest continuous rainforest, reduce CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and incorporate Indigenous ancestral practices to sustainably protect the largest biological corridor of continuous forest in Ecuador.

How does it work?

The Amazon Future Fund

The Amazon Future Fund is a sustainable conservation fund that finances forest protection in the Ecuadorian Amazon, led jointly by Indigenous Peoples and subnational governments. It’s a fund that will ensure conservation financing finally reaches the people protecting the forest, while building a long-term path for climate stability and human wellbeing.

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Why it matters?

Every year, deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon advances at alarming rates, accelerating the climate crisis and endangering countless animal and plant species, along with millions of people, including 11 Indigenous nationalities who safeguard the forest.

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Results So Far

So far, the Amazonian Platform has secured more than 10 million acres of protected areas across three provinces — Pastaza, Zamora Chinchipe, and Morona Santiago. The next steps are to expand this success to the northern provinces and to launch the Amazon Future Fund, a financing mechanism led jointly by Indigenous Peoples and provincial governments to ensure long-term protection of this network of forests.

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