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The Issues

Environmental damage. Deforestation and logging. Aerial photo of forest cut down causing climate change

Losing the Forest

Gold panning on the River Anzu, Ecuador

Gold Mining

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Vanishing Species

Sinchi Warmi

Heritage Under Threat

Our Guardians

Sinchi Warmi Forest Inauguration

Sinchi Warmi Guardians

Forest Guardian Staff

Sinchi Warmi Lodge

The Travelers Who Protect

Our Forest

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Location Matters

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The Fauna

Sinchi Warmi during study

The Flora

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Stand with the Guardians, Protect the Amazon

Your legacy for the rainforest

What we do

We help create and strengthen community-owned areas where forests need protection the most. Protecting the Amazon is a collective effort. Indigenous communities are the forest’s strongest guardians, and partnership is key to lasting impact.

Global Connection Can Secure Our Forests

It's time to take meaningful action together.

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What’s at Risk if We Stay Silent

Every day of inaction brings us closer to losing the Amazon’s irreplaceable life force

Inspire Yourself for Positive Change

Experience connection with nature through ancestral knowledge.

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Unlock the Power of your Care

Your journey to safeguarding rainforests starts here

Turn your care into a powerful force for conservation

Walking side by side with the Sinchi Warmis through the rainforest, you'll realize that supporting Indigenous wisdom and their frontline fight to protect the forest safeguards the future, not only for their children, but for all of us.

Become a Guardian for the Amazon

Protect the Amazon with Those Who Call It Home

We can not protect the Amazon alone from a distance. We need Indigenous communities, the Amazon's strongest defenders. Hold their back to safeguard biodiversity for us all.

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Learn why we are the right partner to work with

Forest Guardians is powered by a strong alliance. For over 20 years, Ventura TRAVEL and the V Social Foundation have turned travel into a force for preserving culture, protecting nature, and empowering women and youth. Together with the Indigenous community Sinchi Warmi, our trusted partner since 2017, we develop community-led conservation projects that amplify impact and protect biodiversity.

V Social Foundation

Strengthening Communities in more than 14 countries worldwide since 2006.

Ventura TRAVEL

Turning Travel into a Force for Good since more than 20 Years.

Sinchi Warmi

Preserving Kichwa Indigenous ancestral knowledge through women-led community tourism for more than a decade.

Our Forest Guardian Core Team

Our promises to you

Resilience

We create conservation models that support ecosystems across generations.

Owned by the Community

Indigenous communities lead and steward conservation efforts.

Tangible

Visitors experience conservation directly, turning awareness into action.

Trusted by Science

Our actions are grounded in evidence and measured with transparency.

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Establish Indigenous Stewardship

We protect threatened rainforests by transferring stewardship back to indigenous communities.

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Boost Biodiversity

Our conservation work delivers measurable biodiversity benefits based on science and ancestral wisdom.

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Activate Nature Based Economies

We turn travel into a catalyst, generating the resources needed to sustain conservation.

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Local defenders struggle alone,

facing threats without global support

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The rainforest weakens,

losing species, balance, and resilience.

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Indigenous wisdom fades,

as forests vanish.

Define Your Contribution for the Amazon

Team Up with a Local Guardian

Help Keep Watch Over the Rainforest

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Andre, Founder of Ventura TRAVEL
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Juan, Conservation Specialist at V Social
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Camilo, South America Responsible at V Social
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Marie, Director at V Social
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Meliza, President of Sinchi Warmi