The Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA) is a U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is active in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Our mission is to conserve biodiversity and promote the sustainable use of Amazonian natural resources for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Southeastern Peru is among the most biodiverse places on Earth and boasts a large number of expansive protected areas that shelter more species of plants and animals than almost anywhere else. However, widespread, uncontrolled resource extraction and climate change are presenting ever greater threats to the long-term health of the region?s rainforest ecosystem. Our research, reforestation, and education projects aim to document southeastern Peru?s plant and animal species and monitor their populations in the face of ongoing environmental change, restore degraded forests by building local capacity, and inspire the next generation of community and conservation leaders in the Amazon.

Environment , Environmental Education , Forest Conservation , Natural Resources Conservation & Protection

Biological research and monitoring, sustainable tropical agriculture, agroforestry, and reforestation, and environmental education projects

Protect species, restore rainforest ecosystems, and inspire the next generation of the Amazon's stewards

Peru's Madre de Dios region, in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon