Researchers estimate only 15,000 jaguars remain in the wild. Their last refuge is in the Amazon basin. Yet even in the Amazon rainforest they’re far from safe. Ranchers shoot them on sight due to fear or concern for their livestock. Poachers kill them for their...
Mother Earth has been knocking on our front doors, weeping in despair and pleading with us to change our ways. But, we closed our curtains, dimmed our lights, talked in hushed tones and pretended we were not home. So, she dispatched COVID-19 to forcibly smash through...
Sometimes you have an encounter that changes you forever. This past December I met Rosie and my heart will never recover. Rosie was still a baby but already she had experienced incredible trauma. She watched her own mother killed and eaten. Then she was sold to be...
Toronto, Canada (Dec 17, 2019) The Amazon Rainforest Conservancy (ARC) has launched their first ever holiday initiative. Created by agency Zulu Alpha Kilo, the campaign recreates the classic Yule Log Fireplace channel using real footage of the Amazon burning to draw...
A decade of illegal gold mining has transformed a formally lush area in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon into a wasteland. In February 2019, the president of the region of Madre de Dios (where most of the destructive mining takes place) declared a state of emergency...
In August, as the world’s attention shifted to the fires in the Amazon rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy (ARC) had its best financial month ever. Thank you to the 528 people who donated a total of $38,421 CDN to ARC last month. And here’s a pie chart...
