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) nonprofit organization registered in New York and operates in Santa Maria de Ojeal, a community along the Amazon River in the Loreto region of Peru. The organization is also duly registered in Peru as an Asociación Civil Sin Fines de Lucro with SUNARP (N° Partida 11174048).

Funding Members: Rolando Nina, Matteo Callegari, Ilgin Yildiz and Susan Owens.