Executive Summary
The Amazon region's alarming destruction is bringing it close to an ecological collapse before 2030, a scenario that carries profound consequences for the planet and the people who inhabit it. Recent political developments create further threats. FAS believes that the Amazon is “too big to fail."
The organization is implementing a strategy to make forests worth more standing than cut. Throughout the 11 million hectares—roughly the size of Portugal—where FAS has worked since 2008, deforestation has been reduced by 76 percent. Family income has increased by 202 percent in a total of 581 communities. Health and education also have flourished.
FAS has done this through a people-centered approach of supporting a network of Amazon institutions and people’s groups to scale up FAS’s integrated "social and environmental" technology. FAS will create an innovative finance mechanism and multi-stakeholder learning and policy platform that will shape a sustainable Amazon economy—a "bioeconomy"—with new economic governance that will inspire change regionally and globally.
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Accomplishments
In 2020, FAS acted effectively and proactively in finding partners to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in the Amazon and foster the community structure to prosper and protect the region. As a result, the territory in which FAS works has been expanded to more than 7,200 communities, villages, and neighborhoods, benefiting more than 439,600 people in 100 territories—including federal and state conservation units, indigenous lands, and municipal headquarters—in the Brazilian Amazon. In total, FAS works in more than 6,600 communities, benefiting more than 104,800 families in a territory of almost 11 million hectares.
