2025 Annual Report
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Before I begin, I would like to ask permission… to breathe.
To breathe like the wind that moves through the Amazon. An ancient and present wind that carries memory and direction. In 2025, it gathered even greater strength. It was the year that COP30 brought the world closer to the forest and placed it at the center of decisions.
A breath from a territory that has taught for centuries that nothing lives alone, where the river converses with the earth, the tree sustains the sky, the banzeiro* announces movement even before it reveals itself, and the pororoca** shows that different forces can meet and redraw the course of the waters.
2025 was a year of encounters. Encounters between voices and knowledge, science and ancestry, governments, organizations, companies, Indigenous people, youth, and communities that chose to take responsibility for the future.
I breathed hope. A concrete hope that arises when commitments become goals and goals become action. When the forest ceases to be a backdrop and becomes recognized as a subject — a living system and an essential part of the planet’s climatic, economic, and social stability.
I breathed out a warning: development must go hand in hand with preservation, growth requires balance, and the world is greater than the human experience.
Rivers regulate the climate, soils store carbon, species sustain invisible cycles, and territories hold essential knowledge.
There are also enchanted beings, recognized by many cultures as a living part of existence. To think beyond the human is maturity. It is recognizing that we are part of a larger,
interdependent network.
2025 was a year of clear direction, more conscious choices, and decisions oriented toward the long term. The challenge is great, and the capacity to respond is also growing.
And I keep breathing.
May the following pages be read with that same energy: an awareness of urgency accompanied by hope, attention to warnings accompanied by action, and the conviction that a better world is born from collective movement.
And that movement has already begun.
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Choosing the narrative:
to feel and to act
Nature finds its voice through our advisor Maickson.
Maickson Serrão, a journalist from the Tupinambá people, holds a master’s degree in Human Sciences from the State University of Amazonas and is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). As the creator of the Pavulagem podcast, which gives voice to stories and knowledge from the Amazon, he has become a reference in strengthening the oral traditions and cultures of the people from the forest. He is also a TED Speaker, author of the children’s book “A Mãe da Mata” (The Mother of the Forest) and producer of the animation “Origem da Noite” (Origin of the Night), inspired by narratives of the Sateré-Mawé people.
