Amazonia on the Brink of Extinction: New Data Reveal That the Symptoms of a Tipping Point Are Advancing Beyond Previous Estimates

A report to be launched next week by a coalition of Indigenous leaders, researchers, and international organizations calls on regional leaders to commit to protecting and restoring 80% of the Amazon by 2025 at COP30.

Belém, BRAZIL (October 27, 2025) — The report “Amazonia on the Brink of Extinction”, led by COICA, will be published next week ahead of the November UNFCCC negotiations, revealing the countless ways in which the Amazon is exhibiting the symptoms of an ecological point of no return—much sooner than previously estimated by the international scientific community.

The new publication updates some of the methodological assumptions and data from the 2022 report “Amazonia Against the Clock,” which provided a regional assessment of where and how to protect 80% of the rainforest by 2025. This new collection of analyses delves deeper into the drivers of deforestation and degradation, with contributions from: the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG), the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA), AQOCI (a coalition of 70 organizations in Canada), the Amazon Waters Alliance (29 organizations), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), MAAP, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Earth Insight, Amazon Watch, among others.

Please contact us if you wish to receive an advance copy of the report, under embargo until November 3, 2025.

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• Alicia Guzmán (Technical Coordinator, 80×2025 Initiative) – aliciaguzman5@hotmail.com / +593 98 641 5612

• Bryan Ludeña (COICA Communications) – blud1993@gmail.com / +593 98 979 5277

About the 80×2025: Amazonia for Life Initiative

The initiative “Amazonia for Life: Protecting and Restoring 80% by 2025–2030” seeks to prevent the world’s largest tropical rainforest from reaching its tipping point. Indigenous communities across the basin and their allies are raising their voices to call for the protection of the Amazon and the safeguarding of our shared future.