Amazonlink.org is a brazilian non-governmental organization [NGO]. It was founded September 2001 in Rio Branco, capital of the brazilian state of Acre. We intend to build an extensive Website and a news-service with information on the Amazon under this address in Portuguese, English and German [long-term also Spanish].



Our Mission is:

To overcome political, cultural, ideological and linguistic boundaries in favor of collaboration in the pursuit of preservation of the Amazon and improvement of living conditions of its inhabitants.



Specific objectives:

1. Supplying of information through the Internet and other media on the ecosystems and the social and cultural reality of the Amazon;

2. Studies, research and informing about the problems of the ecological and social problems of the Amazon, and the possible solutions aiming at sustainable development;

3. Promoting the exchange of such information and ideas between different cultures and countries;

4. Democratization of the access to information technologies, and opening up of opportunities for articulation for environmental and social organizations in the Amazon, so they can make contacts, gain support and commercialize their non-timber-forest-products;

5. Supporting and promoting traditional and scientific knowledge and craft objects from the forest peoples;

6. Promoting citizenship, human rights, assistance to minorities, rights for the women and the children, gratuitous legal access as well as combating poverty and all types of sexual, racial and social discrimination, and forced and child labour;

7. Creating other associations in other regions of the country and in other countries, through the mobilization of governmental entities and national and international non-governmental organizations.