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.