The Amazon Rainforest remains under intense pressure. Between August 2025 and May 2026, environmental degradation affected 2,376 km², while deforestation accounted for another 1,949 km², according to data from the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (Imazon). The ongoing loss of natural cover poses a constant threat to ecological balance. Biodiversity loss, threats to river headwaters, the destruction of natural habitats for various animals, and the intensification of climate change effects are among the consequences that environmental destruction brings to the planet.
SOS Amazônia reaffirms its commitment to defending Amazonian biodiversity by launching a new campaign focused on international donations. The goal is to raise US$280,000 to acquire and permanently preserve a 45-hectare area of Amazon Rainforest in Acre, ensuring the protection of local biodiversity, a water spring, and the surroundings of the SOS Amazônia plant nursery—which produces approximately 450,000 native tree seedlings annually.
Here are five reasons to support this campaign and join the movement to protect Amazônia.
1- Protecting the standing forest
SOS Amazônia reaffirms its commitment to defending Amazonian biodiversity by launching a new campaign focused on international donations. The goal is to raise US$280,000 to acquire and permanently preserve a 45-hectare area of Amazon Rainforest in Acre, ensuring the protection of local biodiversity, a water spring, and the surroundings of the SOS Amazônia plant nursery—which produces approximately 450,000 native tree seedlings annually.
Here are five reasons to support this campaign and join the movement to protect Amazônia.
1- Protecting the standing forest
By supporting this campaign, you help SOS Amazônia acquire a 45-hectare area of forest in the municipality of Capixaba, Acre, near the SOS Amazônia plant nursery. The area is located in a region constantly threatened by environmental degradation due to tree felling for pastureland, which is why this land acquisition is so important. Acquiring this area will allow SOS Amazônia to ensure its permanent conservation, keeping the forest standing and protecting its ecosystems.
2- Caring for wildlife
2- Caring for wildlife
When forests are cut down, humans are not the only ones to suffer the consequences; the primary victims are the creatures that inhabit them. Deforestation results in habitat loss, reduced food supplies, the isolation of animal populations, diminished genetic diversity, and increased conflict between wildlife and humans.
Preserving forests means safeguarding the survival of wildlife and maintaining the ecological balance of ecosystems. Diverse animal species provide essential ecosystem services—such as pest control, pollination, soil fertilization, and water purification—that are vital to the environment.
3- Rehabilitating a water spring
Preserving forests means safeguarding the survival of wildlife and maintaining the ecological balance of ecosystems. Diverse animal species provide essential ecosystem services—such as pest control, pollination, soil fertilization, and water purification—that are vital to the environment.
3- Rehabilitating a water spring
A spring—or headwater—is the point where an underground aquifer reaches the surface and gives rise to a watercourse. To ensure the natural resource is available in the quantity and quality suitable for consumption, it is essential to preserve springs through soil erosion control, vegetative barriers, and the prevention of chemical and biological contamination.
Some of the primary threats to headwater basins include deforestation and burning—practices that are extremely harmful as they destroy organic matter and hinder soil infiltration—as well as intensive grazing and poor land use, which lead to soil compaction, erosion, and siltation.
Recognizing the importance of preserving water sources, one of the campaign's objectives involves protecting the forest area that harbors a local spring. This spring is vital for feeding rivers and streams and ensuring a water supply for the population, even during dry seasons.
4- Contributing to climate balance
Some of the primary threats to headwater basins include deforestation and burning—practices that are extremely harmful as they destroy organic matter and hinder soil infiltration—as well as intensive grazing and poor land use, which lead to soil compaction, erosion, and siltation.
Recognizing the importance of preserving water sources, one of the campaign's objectives involves protecting the forest area that harbors a local spring. This spring is vital for feeding rivers and streams and ensuring a water supply for the population, even during dry seasons.
4- Contributing to climate balance
Climate balance depends on maintaining natural processes that regulate the planet's temperature, the rainfall cycle, and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The primary threats to this balance stem mainly from human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Consequences of climate imbalance include global warming—with rising average global temperatures leading to melting glaciers and sea-level rise—as well as extreme weather events like heatwaves, severe droughts, floods, and wildfires. It also impacts productive activities, such as agriculture, and affects the population's food security. Safeguarding climate balance is essential, as it enables healthy ecosystems and a global average temperature that sustains life.
Forests are vital for maintaining climate balance; they store carbon, reflect heat, and retain rainwater, acting overall as thermal regulators and natural purifiers.
5- Support a seedling nursery
Consequences of climate imbalance include global warming—with rising average global temperatures leading to melting glaciers and sea-level rise—as well as extreme weather events like heatwaves, severe droughts, floods, and wildfires. It also impacts productive activities, such as agriculture, and affects the population's food security. Safeguarding climate balance is essential, as it enables healthy ecosystems and a global average temperature that sustains life.
Forests are vital for maintaining climate balance; they store carbon, reflect heat, and retain rainwater, acting overall as thermal regulators and natural purifiers.
5- Support a seedling nursery
The SOS Amazônia plant nursery was inaugurated in 2023 to mark the NGO's 35th anniversary. Located in the municipality of Capixaba, Acre, the facility was built to bolster forest restoration efforts by producing seedlings of forest species, fruit trees, and palms.
Featuring species such as Brazil nut, copaiba, mahogany, rubber tree, cacao, coffee, and açaí—among many others—the nursery has the capacity to produce 450,000 seedlings annually. These are used to establish agroforestry systems in reforestation areas. Protecting the forest surrounding the nursery will help foster long-term ecological connectivity and ensure the continuity of ongoing conservation and restoration processes.
Featuring species such as Brazil nut, copaiba, mahogany, rubber tree, cacao, coffee, and açaí—among many others—the nursery has the capacity to produce 450,000 seedlings annually. These are used to establish agroforestry systems in reforestation areas. Protecting the forest surrounding the nursery will help foster long-term ecological connectivity and ensure the continuity of ongoing conservation and restoration processes.
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Every contribution represents a concrete step toward keeping the forest standing, protecting biodiversity, conserving water resources, and strengthening forest restoration efforts in the Amazon. By supporting the Protect the Amazon Rainforest campaign, anyone can become part of this global conservation movement.
Every contribution represents a concrete step toward keeping the forest standing, protecting biodiversity, conserving water resources, and strengthening forest restoration efforts in the Amazon. By supporting the Protect the Amazon Rainforest campaign, anyone can become part of this global conservation movement.