Acaté Amazon Conservation

Founded in 2012, Acaté Amazon Conservation is a non-governmental organisation based in Iquitos, Peru working on nature & wildlife conservation, environment & climate, health +2 more.

Acaté Amazon Conservation is a non-profit conservation organisation based in the United States and Peru, headquartered in the Amazon gateway city of Iquitos. It works in partnership with the Matsés indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, with a focus on protecting their ancestral territories, culture, traditional medicine and livelihoods. Its initiatives include participatory territorial mapping, the preservation of traditional healing knowledge through a Matsés-language medicine encyclopedia and Healing Forests, sustainable non-timber forest product harvesting, sustainable economic development, native language education, governance support, integrated aquaculture, and biodiversity monitoring. The organisation states that projects are led and implemented by the Matsés, with a focus on self-sufficiency and capacity building. It was co-founded by Christopher Herndon and William Park, and its US entity is a 501(c)(3) incorporated in 2012.