CoAct Database

Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB)

The AMPB is a space for coordination and exchange of territorial authorities that administer or influence the main forest masses of Mesoamerica. Indigenous governments and community forestry organizations that in the Alliance seek to strengthen their own dialogue, focused on community management of their natural resources, jointly seeking to influence governments and international cooperation so that biodiversity conservation strategies and for the climate balance, appropriately integrate the rights and benefits of Indigenous Peoples and Forest Communities.

The AMPB works on two clear advocacy routes: the Community Forest Management agenda and the Territorial Rights agenda. Both are based on the global Climate Change agenda. Convinced that the only way of survival for our Indigenous Peoples and Forest Communities in the face of massive deforestation threats, the impact generated by climate change and the threats of megaprojects is through the union between the peoples, the Mesoamerican Alliance of Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB) in the context of COP16, in order to make visible the successful management of communities in the management of their natural resources to influence governments and instances that daily make decisions on issues that directly affect communities.