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The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is an intergovernmental organization made up of eight member countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela and is the only socio-environmental bloc in Latin America with the vision of the South-South Cooperation process of countries dedicated to the Amazon.
It promotes the work of the following dimensions: political-diplomatic, strategic and technical, building synergies between governments, multilateral organizations, cooperation agencies, organized civil society, social movements, scientific community, and productive sectors, with the aim of preserving the environment and the rational use of the natural resources of the Amazon.
This body was formed as a result of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ATT) signed on July 3, 1978, whose objectives are the preservation of the environment and the rational use of the natural resources of the Amazon.
In 1995, the eight member countries decided to create ACTO and in 2003 established the Permanent Secretariat of ACTO to strengthen and implement the objectives of the Agreement.
In June of this year, this organization defined lines of work for the development of the Amazonian countries during a meeting held in Brasilia, capital of the Federative Republic of Brazil, where topics such as: The Promotion of Ecotourism and its role in the promotion of Sustainable Development were addressed.
The current president of the General Secretariat of ACTO, Alexandra Moreira, highlighted "the importance of raising regional agendas to address the common problems of the countries," while detailing the Amazon Regional Observatory, as "a management tool for the institutional implementation of the organization's projects."
The countries that make up this body today have the conviction that the Amazon constitutes a strategic reserve and that its particularities make it unique and one of the richest on the planet.
One of the fundamental objectives of ACTO is to promote the harmonious development of the Amazon Region, through the coordination, development, promotion and execution of programs, projects and activities.
The areas of action that the countries have defined to work on are intimately linked to the treasures that the Amazon possesses and the need to conserve them and ensure their integral management.
Call from President Maduro
In this line, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, pointed out in the middle of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was held in Egypt from November 6 to 18, 2022 that it is necessary to reactivate the Amazon Treaty Organization, Because the "common flag is to save the Amazon rainforest", given that "we are on time, there has been great damage in recent decades as part of the effects linked to the predatory capitalist system".
He explained, in that sense, that it is appropriate to initiate a path of protection, salvation from South America, together with the world, through the Amazon, as part of "the concrete and specific responsibilities that we have to fulfill," where an action plan must be inscribed.
Venezuela's role in last ACTO meeting
According to information shared by the director of Forest Heritage of the People's Power Ministry for Ecosocialism, Zoraima Echenique, in an interview offered in June 2023, Venezuela's role in its participation during the V Regional Meeting of Forest Authorities of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), held in Quito, Ecuador, revolved around the following points:
Venezuela, in this meeting, once again defended its forest heritage and assumed its position before the ACTO, where the forestry achievements of each nation were presented.
He presented relevant achievements well received by other countries such as: "One student, one tree" program, through which each student must plant a tree, in the context of the work of environmental education and preservation, an experience that aroused interest in knowing and applying, by other ACTO nations.
The "House to House Awareness Program on the Climate Crisis", a work carried out by the young people of the Environmental Brigades in Venezuela; This was well regarded by other countries.
Venezuela presented results in the field of publications on forest research, being the country with the greatest research and publication in the forestry field, such as the conservation of xerophytic forest, mangrove forest and tropical forest, with more than 18 publications in the last year on the subject of forest research for conservation of our forests.
Through ACTO, Venezuela will be the country that will collect the information of the different methodologies of the countries, based on systematization and publication of such information.
Venezuela raised before this V Meeting that the South American nation stands out on the issue of seed collection and tree planting. The particularity of Venezuela is that it has the Tree Mission that is part of the scaffolding created by Commander Hugo Chávez of direct work with the people and popular power to develop the tasks, depending on the growth of the country.
