23 Jan 2012 - An Unforgetable Trip on the Solimões River
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Four weeks, eleven projects, something for everyone...
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22 Dec 2011 - Christmas in the Amazon
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This Christmas our Managing Trustee is taking a group of senior members from the Xixuaú community down the Rio Solimões, all the way to the Columbian border.
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1 Dec 2011 - Global Business of Biodiversity
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Global Business of Biodiversity – Global Business of Forests - 28th November – what an event!
Taking part in the GBOB – GBOF event this year was a seminal moment for the Amazon Charitable Trust.
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29 Sep 2011 - A quick round up of the year
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It’s been a busy year since our resident blogger Annie Cooper left London for the dense green forest of the Amazon, after an introduction by ACT!
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21 Aug 2011 - Boa Vista and the Government of Roraima
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Earlier this summer, Robert joined representatives from the Xixuaú community and Emanuela Evangelista in Boa Vista to continue discussions with the state government and its various entities to push forward the plans for the science research centre.
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13 Apr 2011 - Manaus - Amazonas´ World Sustainability Forum
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In March both Robert and Emanuela attended the Forum Mundial de Sustentabilidade (Amazonas´ World Sustainability Forum) held at the Hotel Tropical, Manaus.
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15 Feb 2011 - Proposed Amazon Science Village
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With the Botanica Comunitaria project and the training of the local mateiros underway, ACT has been drawing up further ideas that will ensure long term sustainability for the Xixuaú community and protection of its primary forests.
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29 Dec 2010 - School´s out in Xixuau: considering literacy with O Professor
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Robert Pasley-Tyler, managing trustee of the Trust, is in Xixuau for Christmas, and as the festivities mark the start of the long school holidays in Brazil, it´s a good moment to consider Amazonian education and ´capacity building´, one of the laudable aims of this month´s Cancún agreements.
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15 Dec 2010 - Good news for rainforests from the Cancún climate conference?
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At the Amazon Charitable Trust we are very glad to see that we share many of the goals of the new agreements reached at the Cancún conference, particularly on the need to conserve forests in developing countries.
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22 Nov 2010 - “Ecotourism helps our whole community”: Mariana explains how everyone benefits
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Skimming through the comments book in Xixuau shows, again and again, how moved visitors are by the chance to glimpse the richness of life in the community and in the rainforest. But the best of it is that the benefits are truly mutual.
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26 Oct 2010 - Amazon impressions
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Exclusively for the Amazon Charitable Trust blog, the poet and author Tomica Bajsic has collected together some of the things that most moved him in Xixuau.
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9 Oct 2010 - Tree top botany in the Amazon
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Extracting and cataloguing botanical specimens from the rainforest canopy doesn´t sound easy, even with fantastic tree climbing skills, but with the help of some botanists from INPA and Kew Gardens (and a ten metre extendible tree pruner) the community of Xixuau have shown that the Botanica Comunitaria project could work.
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23 Sep 2010 - Interview with Chris Clark: How it all began
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28 Aug 2010 - This other Eden
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The many eminent roles of our trustee Professor Sir Ghillean Prance have included that of Science Director (and now trustee) of the Eden Project, the remarkable environmental extravaganza in Cornwall.
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19 Aug 2010 - A warm ribeirinho welcome for Sir Ghillean´s expedition
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A few days ago a boat chugged up to Xixuau with probably the most well-connected visitors so far, from the most discerning of art collectors to the bankers´ boardroom.
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26 Jul 2010 - Amazon Breathing
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Xixuau is a beautiful place, and a stunning new photo journal by Tomica Bajsic really does it justice.
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17 Jul 2010 - Project Talia: one little girl´s legacy brings health care to the Jauaperi
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Xixuau is 30 hours from the hospitals of Manaus, so access to basic health services has long been a priority for the Xixuau community.
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29 Jun 2010 - Guardiãm: investment, innovation, conservation?
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Can private equity investment really play a major role in securing the future of the Amazon rainforest? The team developing the new Guardiãm fund certainly think so.
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15 Jun 2010 - A co-operative success
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CoopXixuau has registered its first success a step forward for ecotourism! The first thing the co-op did when it was formally established in February 2010 was make the long journey to Rorainopolis to visit the Secretary of Environment and Tourism, to pay for the licence for the new tourist malocas.
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25 May 2010 - What is so special about the Amazon Charitable Trust? A view from the Chair
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Our Chair, Dr John Hemming, was a founder of Survival International and Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society for 21 years to 1996, and is a trustee of so many charities that after his first visit to Xixuau, we decided to hear from him about his thoughts on the area, and on the Amazon Charitable Trust.
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10 May 2010 - Financing the rainforest from within the urban jungle: networking São Paulo
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The tiny community of Xixuau feels like a different planet from the urban jungle of São Paulo, but this might just be the place where the future of the rainforest can be secured.
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20 Apr 2010 - Meeting the Chair: Dr John Hemming
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The Amazon Charitable Trust blogger decided to get to know our remarkable Chair, Dr John Hemming, who has spent decades exploring the Amazon, meeting over forty indigenous tribes, undertaking research in unknown territories, and publishing prize-winning books.
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5 Apr 2010 - Planting seeds for community botany
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The area of the proposed Lower Rio-Branco Jauaperi Resex is a vast 600,000 hectares (1.5million acres) of undisturbed rainforest, both seasonally flooded land and higher terra firme, home to innumerable plants and animals.
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24 Mar 2010 - Invasion of the Jauaperi
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Where´ve our fish gone? Xixuau may be 500km from Manaus, far from shops, roads or restaurants, but the kids are asking their parents whether the largest fish of the Rio Jauaperi actually exist outside their colouring books.
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9 Mar 2010 - Great news from the rainforest
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Since Peter Bennett and Robert Pasley-Tyler´s trip to Xixuau we have had some good news: the processes have begun to get permission for construction of some new, traditional wooden malocas for visitors.
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26 Feb 2010 - Revisiting Xixuau; reinvigorating Amazon Charitable Trust
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Robert Pasley-Tyler and Peter Bennett, two trustees of the Amazon Charitable Trust, have just been on a wonderful visit to Brazil (Robert´s office is the generous host to the Amazon Charitable Trust and Peter is the director of Rainforest Concern)
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14 Feb 2010 - Forest fire!
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At the end of a long dry season the people of Xixuau were alarmed to see smoke over the horizon
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29 Jan 2010 - Building up for the next venture...
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After a busy year in 2009 everyone in Xixuau is already looking forward to their next big thing: a community cooperative.
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6 Jan 2010 - Xixuau´s year
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As the new year begins it´s a good time to see what Xixuau has had to celebrate and overcome over the last twelve months.
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28 Dec 2009 - Bringing Xixuau to Copenhagen
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What better way to start our new blog here at the Amazon Charitable Trust than with a few words about our trip to Copenhagen?
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