Established in January 2009, the Amazon Charitable Trust (ACT) works with the Xixuaú Community to ensure they have the resources and skills to become the best guardians of spectacular biodiversity and natural cycles that shape our world.

Sharing the same Kleinwort origins as the WWF, ACT has helped create, in partnership with the Xixuaú, a sustainable and scalable model for conserving large areas of forest to act as a ‘blueprint’. Today, the revolutionary model of a Science and Research Village has been developed, with input from experts in and out of Brazil, and will protect 1.5 million acres of forest.

ACT is motivated by the philosophy that endangered ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest will only be conserved with the participation and development of local communities.

 

Latest News
27 Dec 2012
The Amazon Research Village: a ‘blueprint’ model indeed!
The Amazon Charitable Trust business model for the Amazon Research Village was recently picked up by the Brazilian Federal government

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23 Jan 2012
News Flash!
Fantastic news!

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12 Dec 2011
A Big Thank You to the Future Generation!
Barclay Primary School´s Year 5´s kind donation.

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15 Jan 2011
O Eco Amazonia publishes a Community Botany update with Elizama and Taco
Following the summer visit to Cornwall, the Eden Project´s plant conservation website, www.plant-talk.org, published an article about the Xixuau-Xiparinã community botany project.

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3 Sep 2010
Gracias Humberto
For over a year the Trust has been very lucky to have Humberto Quiroga working with us.

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