Children taking part in this initiative study in several rural schools across the Department of Tolima, nestled in Colombia’s Central Andes. In addition to helping care for species facing different levels of threat, this enthusiastic group of young collaborators is also seizing the opportunity to learn about the importance of wildlife and how to protect it.

The Amazon is dangerously close to its tipping point. Every minute, an area of rainforest equivalent to six football / soccer fields is deforested, according to an estimate by WWF using data from MapBiomas. Amid this socio-environmental crisis, a group of environmental and scientific organizations have joined forces in an unprecedented alliance to create Amazon League, a global campaign that seeks to mobilize civil society and present a joint petition at COP30, demanding concrete actions to stop the collapse of the Amazon and protect the planet's other tropical forests.