Mapping Stewardship Across the Amazon
A collaborative platform for mapping lands and territories, documenting stewardship systems, and exploring comparable indicators across the Amazon basin.
Understanding stewardship across the Amazon requires better data and knowledge systems.
Across the basin, forests and rivers are sustained through diverse governance systems, including Indigenous territories, community lands, protected areas, private reserves, and co-managed landscapes.
Yet the information needed to understand these systems remains fragmented and incomplete.
Missing and Emerging Areas
Many conservation areas and collective lands are absent from global spatial databases, and new designations can take years to appear.
Fragmented Data
Information on governance, stewardship practices, and management effectiveness is scattered across reports, monitoring systems, and local datasets.
Limited Comparability
Assessment frameworks exist, but they differ across countries and governance systems, making it difficult to compare stewardship outcomes across the Amazon.
Atlas Amazon makes stewardship systems visible, connected, and comparable.
The platform brings together mapped lands and territories, stewardship assessments, and regional indicators to understand how landscapes across the Amazon are governed and cared for over time.
Track Areas
Document protected and conserved areas and collective lands across the Amazon, including new designations, boundary updates, and governance information.
Assess Stewardship
Support stewardship assessments through dedicated tools for protected areas and collective lands, including the PAME and CASE applications.
Generate Indicators
Combine assessments with regional datasets to produce indicators of stewardship, resilience, degradation, and pressure across protected areas and collective lands.
How Atlas Amazon Works
Atlas Amazon connects collaborative contributions, stewardship assessments, and regional datasets to generate shared insights across the Amazon basin.
Who Uses Atlas Amazon
Stewardship knowledge connects many actors working across the Amazon. Atlas Amazon supports collaboration among Indigenous peoples, local communities, protected area managers, researchers, governments, and funders.
Indigenous Peoples
Document territorial stewardship systems and governance practices across Indigenous territories.
Local Communities
Map community lands and contribute information on collective stewardship.
Protected Area Managers
Upload and compare management effectiveness assessments.
Researchers
Access spatial datasets to analyze conservation systems across the Amazon.
Governments
Track conservation areas and monitor progress toward biodiversity commitments.
Funders
Identify partners, prioritize landscapes, and track long-term outcomes.
Help Grow the Atlas
Atlas Amazon grows through the contributions of people working across the Amazon. Add new areas, improve metadata, share stewardship assessments, and help strengthen a shared understanding of conservation and stewardship across the basin.