How can I help?
The basin is defended by people — forest communities, Indigenous federations, journalists, and scientists. The most effective thing you can do from anywhere is fund and amplify them.
Support frontline organizations
- Junglekeepers — rangers and land protection on the Las Piedras river, Peru · Peru
- Rainforest Foundation US — territorial monitoring tech in Indigenous hands · Peru, Brazil, Guyana
- Amazon Watch — campaigns with Indigenous federations against extractive projects · basin-wide
- Amazon Conservation — runs the MAAP deforestation-monitoring program · Peru, Bolivia
- Instituto Socioambiental — Brazil's leading socio-environmental defender · Brazil
- Amazon Conservation Team — mapping and land titling with local communities · Colombia, Suriname, Brazil
Links go to each organisation's own site. Canopy Watch does not receive or process any funds; the same list appears, filtered by country, when you open a place on the map.
Follow the signal
The Amazon Signal is a daily brief written from the same feeds as this map: the 30-day alert area, the last 48 hours of fire detections and the week's largest DETER alerts, each with its source and its caveat. Subscribe by RSS or JSON Feed; it only posts when something changed or on the weekly roundup, so it will not flood you. The same field notes will run on Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube — automated accounts, labelled as such.
Use the data
Everything this tracker shows comes from open sources — cite them, build on them, keep them funded. The daily brief's numbers are open too, as /data/snapshots/latest.json (and one file per day). Researchers and journalists can pull the same feeds from Global Forest Watch, INPE, and NASA FIRMS. Public attention measurably changes enforcement — deforestation spikes when nobody is watching.
Consume deliberately
The largest deforestation drivers are cattle, soy, gold, and timber. Favor certified or deforestation-free supply chains where they exist, and be loudest about gold — illegal mining is the fastest-growing pressure on Indigenous territories in this data.