COICA
COICA is the Coordinator organization of the Initiative Amazonia for Life: protect 80% by 2025”. COICA was founded in 1984 with the aim of generating policies, proposals and actions at the local, national and international levels, from the Amazonian indigenous peoples, nationalities, and organizations. In 2021, COICA and indigenous leaders from the 8 Amazonian countries and 1 French overseas territory, together with allied organizations, called on the international community in the Urgent Motion to IUCN to avoid the tipping point in the Amazon by protecting 80% by 2025. Resolution 129 was approved with the vote of 541 global civil society organizations and 62 ministries. Today, more than 1,300 organizations endorse the goal and the Initiative. A new motion has been presented and approved in the first instance that will allow actions until 2030 to avoid cascading points of no return through the protection and restoration of Amazonian ecosystems. The Initiative “Amazonia for Life” urges the protection and restoration of 80% of the Amazon by 2030 to avoid the tipping point in the forest with the greatest biodiversity and fresh water on the planet, as a measure to guarantee the water, climate, and food security of the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, the region, and humanity as a whole.
Stand
Until November 2024, Stand.earth was the Co-coordinator organization of the Initiative “Amazonia for Life: protect 80% by 2025. Stand.earth´s mission is to build collective power through campaigns that turn small actions into massive, lasting results in three key impact areas.
RAISG
RAISG was set up in 2007 with the objective of analyzing the region as single unit and of providing decentralized and public intelligence to enable the region to be better understood, valued and protected.
Wild Heritage
Wild Heritage mission is to protect primary forests, restore degraded forests, and safeguard biocultural diversity
Earth Insight
Earth Insight’s mission is to build tools and momentum for restricting fossil fuel, mining, and other industrial expansion threats to key ecosystems and Indigenous and local communities.
AVAAZ
Avaaz is a US-based nonprofit organization launched in 2007 that promotes global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, and conflict. The word avaaz means ‘voice’ in several Asian and European languages.
Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
One Earth
One Earth’s mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.
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Endorse the declaration.
Indigenous leaders from the nine Amazonian countries invite Indigenous communities, scientists, governments, cities, financial institutions, and all individuals ready to act for the planet to support this call. Signing this declaration is a first step toward protecting and restoring 80% of the Amazon by 2025–2030.
See the list of organizations supporting 80% protection of Amazonia by 2025
SIGN THE DECLARATIONPartners & Allies
A diverse group of hundreds of civil society organizations and a wide range of global cultural leaders are in support of averting this tipping point crisis and advancing bold solutions in the Amazonia region that future generations will be proud of. Endorsers include:
