Amazonia 2.0

Amazonia 2.0 (A2.0) is a collaborative regional initiative funded by the European Union, executed since 2017 under the coordination of IUCN South America, in collaboration with IUCN Brazil, Fundación Natura (Colombia), Fundación EcoCiencia (Ecuador), ECOREDD (Peru), Amazon Conservation Team (Suriname) and Amerindian Peoples Association (Guyana).

The project was born in 2017, as a strategic alternative to fight the threats and pressures on Amazonian forests, through the proper management of indigenous and campesino territories. It focuses on populations that “live in the forest and from the forest” with a bottom-up approach that strengthens capacities to create local management models to prevent, address and mitigate pressures and threats to the Amazonian forests, safeguarding its natural heritage.

The A2.0 intervention model has local oversight or monitoring as a fundamental tool, that allows indigenous or campesino communities to become a technical figure that ensures the sustainable management of their resources. The work of the local monitors generates resonance in their communities, generating an impact on decision making at local, subnational and national levels.

This project will implement a dynamic regional platform with social and technological components to connect regionally among the diverse stakeholders in the six countries and share geospatial information collected through monitoring by local actors.