OlmoEarth's impact: Amazon Conservation

In the Amazon, early-warning systems already flag where vital forests are disappearing. What decision-makers lack is context. Where monitoring is dense, a sea of alerts – and limited staff and resources to cover thousands of hectares of dense rainforest – can leave decision-makers without the necessary context to know what is driving the change and where to act first.

The Amazon Conservation Association, an international conservation nonprofit working for the past 25 years toward building a thriving Amazon, used the OlmoEarth Platform to add that critical context.

Amazon Conservation specialists reviewed high-resolution satellite images and labeled the likely causes of deforestation—for example, mining, agriculture, or road construction. Then, the team fed these labels into OlmoEarth to build a model that classifies drivers of forest loss across Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil.

The result is transforming instances of forest loss into actionable intelligence.

OlmoEarth’s outputs are aligned with the operations of enforcement agencies, community groups, and other stakeholders. Amazon Conservation’s use enables the identification of specific places and causes of deforestation throughout the Amazon, delivering crucial information to inform patrols, briefings, and policy decisions.

Knowing the context changes the response. Where OlmoEarth identifies mining activity, law enforcement and indigenous communities can prioritize rapid action to intervene and halt it before significant damage occurs. When new road construction is the driver of loss, transportation and environment ministries can manage and mitigate the impact.

For Amazon Conservation, by delivering the “why” behind deforestation in the Amazon at scale and in near real-time – and by doing so within a single, unified system – OlmoEarth Platform is showing how fragmented signals can be turned into targeted, timely action.