Amazon Conservation Association

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 13, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$2,510,068

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Research - aca believes the world's most diverse forests should also be its best-studied forests. Since 2004, aca's los amigos biological station, commonly known as cicra, has been one of the most active research stations in the amazon basin. In 2005, aca also created the wayqecha cloud forest biological station, peru's only permanent research center focused on andean cloud forest ecology and management. In 2010, aca created the villa carmen research station focused on tropical sustainable agriculture research and extension programs for surrounding communities. To date, aca has granted more than 150 research scholarships, and overall, more than 1,000 researchers have conducted scientific studies at aca's stations in peru.

Activity 3

Sustainable livelihoods - aca works to support communities' abilities to earn a living while protecting their natural resources. For example, since 1997, aca's brazil nut program has aided more than 500 brazil nut harvesters, including many indigenous families, in gaining sustainable livelihoods while protecting over 1.8 million acres of rainforest through technical support, training, and certification. Aca also supports conservation-appropriate reforestation and agroforestry, microenterprises such as native fish farming, carbon projects, and community-based ecotourism. Aca is working to mitigate the impacts of infrastructure development in the southwest amazon through the creation of the manu-tambopata conservation corridor, composed of a mosaic of conservation areas and sustainable use zones in the madre de dios region of peru.

Filer

EIN

52-2211305