A central concept in conservation is that knowledge enables protection and stewardship.

Both sustainable management and conservation depend on correct identification of organisms, as this is how one can understand their rarity (or novelty), their distributions, and their ecological requirements.

"The biodiversity of the Amazon is a treasure, but at the same time, it constitutes a disadvantage, due to its scale and complexity. Knowing it is difficult, and we need to serve large numbers of forest communities, protected areas, forest concessions, ecologists, and conservationists spread across the Amazon. All of them need tools and resources to identify flora, but over the years, knowledge and the resources themselves have been concentrated in a few institutions, almost all located in southern Brazil and abroad. There is an urgent need to decentralize these tools and resources and find ways to make them more accessible."

Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D.

"The Amazon comprises one of the largest and most diversified biomes on the planet, containing a megadiverse fauna and flora with a high degree of endemism. In an area of 5.500.000 km², it comprises eight Brazilian states and 125 federal protected areas."

ICMBio

"The biodiversity of the Amazon is still very little known. Discovering, studying, and protecting this natural heritage, which can contain countless benefits for society, is a fundamental mission of environmental, social, and economic importance."

Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)

Our mission is to promote and improve the documentation, monitoring, management, and stewardship of Amazon's floristic diversity.

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