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How Jack Johnson Is Helping to Protect the Amazon

The Amazon Conservation Association is working with Jack Johnson to help offset the carbon emissions from his summer “Sleeping through the Static” tour. Carbon emissions from buses, trucks, planes, hotels, and other emissions by the band and tour staff will be calculated and converted into a monetary equivalent. These funds will be donated to ACA through Jack Johnson's charitable fund “All at Once.” They will protect over 1,000 acres of rainforest land in the Los Amigos Biological Station in the Peruvian Amazon, offsetting more than 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Offsetting carbon is one of many important ways to support ACA in protecting the rainforest and preserving its rich biodiversity. You too can support ACA by donating now.

For press information, please contact FAT DOT via or 212-691-4224.

Celebrating Seven Years of Success at Los Amigos

This September, ACA completed its seven year project to create and manage the Los Amigos Conservation Concession and CICRA Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru. This project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, was a resounding success. Read our final project report (PDF)!

ACCA Wins Regional Environmental Award

On June 5, 2008, ACA’s Peruvian sister organization, ACCA (Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica), won an award for “Environmental Management” from the regional government of Cusco for its work supporting the Haramba Queros Huachiperi indigenous community in establishing an Ecological Reserve. This reserve will constitute the first conservation concession managed by an indigenous group in Peru. The prize is awarded annually in celebration of World Environment Day by Cusco's Natural Resources and Environmental Management Agency. ACCA won in the “green” category, which includes biodiversity conservation and sustainable resource use. The award also recognized ACCA’s protection of 360,000 acres of land at the Los Amigos Conservation Concession and the more than 618,000 acres of Brazil nut conservation concessions ACCA has helped to establish, benefiting 420 families.

Win a Trip to the Amazon and Machu Picchu!

In order to qualify to win this trip for two, interested parties must subscribe to the quarterly ACA Newsletter. By subscribing, you will be entered in the drawing to win the trip, and in addition receive quarterly regional news and ACA/ACCA updates.

ACA will provide the winner round-trip airfare from one of several major international hubs around the country in addition to two complimentary train tickets to the World Heritage site of Machu Picchu from Cusco, Peru.

Winners will be chosen at random on December 1, 2008 and notified via email.

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The ACA video associated with the Jack Johnson tours and All at Once site.

Jack Johnson at Pavilhao Atlantico, Lisbon, Portugal. Photo: K. Johnson

Recognition plaque awarded to ACCA by the Regional Government of Cusco. Photo: Miguel Moran