Grab your canoe, grab your mates, plan your route and get ready to participate in the Virtual Amazon Canoe Challenge fundraising for Amazon Watch.

The virtual challenge is open until August 2023 - Get planning!

We love the Amazon, so naturally we are big fans of the great work that Amazon Watch is doing to help protect it.

All proceeds go directly to Amazon Watch:
"Protecting the rainforest and our climate by supporting Indigenous peoples."

Your can participate from anywhere in the world - From paddling with your local club, a solo trip or epic multi day adventure. SUP & Kayak entries are welcome too!

The team who raises the most money gets a special prize from our team and we will be resharing your paddling adventures from around the world on our social media. (@amazoncanoechallenge) - Use the hastag #paddlefortheamazon

How to participate?

1) Sign up to the virtual challenge here:
https://amazoncanoechallenge.com/virtual-amazon-canoe-challenge-fundraiser/

2) Fundraise for your challenge - Sponsors, mates, mum.. Anything helps!

3) Paddle your chosen route & help protect the Amazon

4) Share your trip to inspire others to do the same! Don't forget to tag us on @amazoncanoechallenge so we can reshare your great work!

5) Donate directly using the link on this page to Amazon Watch

We can't wait to see what you come up with.
Huge thank you from the team at Amazon Canoe Challenge.

Virtual Amazon Canoe Challenge: Fundraising for Amazon Watch

Protecting the Amazon rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples

Since 1996, Amazon Watch has defended the Amazon rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Long-term, trusted partnerships with Indigenous peoples — the best stewards of the rainforest — are the foundation for Amazon Watch’s campaigns for climate justice, corporate accountability, and the permanent protection of the rainforest.

The Amazon is home to more than 511 distinct Indigenous peoples. As our planet’s largest tropical rainforest, it stabilizes our global climate and an immense amount of Earth’s biodiversity and flowing freshwater can be found there. This vital ecosystem and the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded it for centuries face grave threats from deforestation, resource extraction, land grabs, and destructive development projects. The Amazon is facing a tipping point and won't be able to sustain itself as a rainforest if we remain on our current path of destruction.

To move to a turning point, Amazon Watch is carrying out campaigns in partnership with Indigenous peoples to secure Indigenous rights to ancestral territories, halt oil drilling and mining in the biome, and mobilize solidarity funds directly to Amazonian peoples at their request. Their work combines on-the-ground legal, advocacy, and communications expertise and long-term trusted partnerships with Indigenous peoples and organizations.

🌳Amazon Watch’s Amazon Defenders Fund (ADF) provides direct solidarity funding to Amazonian peoples and organizations free of bureaucratic barriers. The ADF supports Indigenous-led initiatives including community organizing, women’s leadership, communal economies, protection of Earth Defenders at risk for resisting destructive development, and crisis response including to wildfires and oil spills. The ADF is built upon a multi-decade track record as a trusted partner among Indigenous nations. You can learn more at amazonwatch.org/get-involved/amazon-defenders-fund.

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