Data and analysis
12 GB of updated datasets on the most pressuring issues of the Amazon rainforest. All data available for download. Get graphical analysis through maps and charts.
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More than 30 layers of georeferenced data ready to be used on interactive maps. Make your own visualization with our tool and get the embed code to publish customized maps
Journalists and
citizen network
Get news from a network of journalist which expands through 9 countries and read first hand reports of citizens and NGOs sent directly from the cities, forests and rivers of the Amazon
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‘Do I deserve to die for speaking on behalf of a people?’
Eronilde Fermin is the chief of the Omágua Kambeba in São Paulo de Olivença, in the Brazilian Amazon. The following is an account of the struggle of unequal forces she faces when trying to guarantee indigenous education, medical care during the pandemic, and protection against invaders
‘Defending the jungle is defending community life,‘ says leader from Ecuadorian Amazon
Rosa Aranda faces two miseries. One in her own body: she was infected by Covid-19. The other is the historical pollution generated by the oil industry, which threatens the territory in which she lives, Piwiri, in the Ecuadorian Amazon forest.
Saweto’s daughter, from Peru, persists in her fight for justice
Diana Ríos Rengifo took on the defense of the Peruvian Amazon after the murder of her father, a well-known Asheninka leader in the fight against illegal loggers. The trees in Saweto, a community located near the Peruvian border with Brazil, are highly coveted on the market and are threatened by indiscriminate logging.
Hortimio, the “Lord of the Earth”: Always at the Forefront in Cataniapo
Inspired by Wänä’cä, a leader who is mentioned in the ancestral songs of the Huöttöja people, Hortimio Ochoa is the visible face of defense of the Cataniapo hydrographic basin in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas. It is an area subject to increasingly evident pressure associated with mining, deforestation and the incursion of illegal armed groups.
Special projects
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View this project InfoAmazonia Colombia
The InfoAmazonia Colombia platform adds updated satellite information on its map along with stories generated by journalists.
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View this project Money giving tree
Meet family farmers, technicians and government officials who help the country produce and at the same time recover Amazonian forests
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View this project Floods Alerts
Pilot platform to inform local communities in advance about flood risks and empower journalists and researchers for historical analyzes of river levels
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View this project InfoAmazonia Network
The project developed a low-cost monitoring system to analyze water quality for human consumption, and made the implementation with communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The results of the analysis are presented on real time in InfoAmazonia platform and alerts are sent to consumers through SMS.
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View this project CO$TING NATURE: a mapping tool for ecosystem services
A tool created by a geographer at King’s College of London, shows that, at current rates of degradation, the largest planet in the rain forest will last only 245 years.
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View this project Social Progress Index in the Amazon
Map brings Social Progress Index data for the 772 municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon, raised by the NGO Imazon
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View this project Brazilian Deforestation Policy
How much money is spent by the federal government to preserve the Amazon? Where resources are invested? A look at the modern era of deforestation (2007-2014) shows the successes and failures of the government’s strategy to combat the devastation of the Brazilian Amazon.
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View this project Visaguas: water access in the Amazon
A paradox haunts the human populations at Amazonia: despite inhabiting the largest watershed on the planet, many people do not have access to potable water. This and other data related to to basic sanitation, water quality and waterborne diseases in the Brazilian Amazon region are presented in the app VISAGUAS.
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View this project Andes Water Amazon
One of the most important hydrological cycles of the planet takes place between the Andes and the Amazon: masses of moist air produced in the forest are dragged up to the mountain slopes, where they cool and precipitate as rain. One fifth of all the fresh water on the planet is generated in this area.