Protecting the Amazon Rainforest is essential to the future of our planet.

Lasting conservation comes from supporting sustainable relationships between local communities and the forest they depend on.

Through education programs developed with local schools in Peru, we promote ecological knowledge, biodiversity awareness, and sustainable forest practices. Working with Indigenous plant-medicine experts, we also help preserve traditional healing knowledge.

By strengthening traditional ways of living with the forest, we reduce environmentally destructive practices and support long-term resilience.

Light for the Amazon is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization registered in New York. It operates in Santa Maria de Ojeal, a community located along the Amazon river in the Loreto region of Peru. The founding members of Light for the Amazon are Matteo Callegari, Ilgin Yildiz and Susan Owens.

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