History: The Peabiru Institute is a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) created in 1998 in São Paulo that in 2004 transferred its headquarters to Belém, Pará state, Brazilian Amazon. In 8 years we invested more than US$ 500 thousand in 76 projects in Brazil and Paraguay.

Mission: “to educate for the Amazon Region biological and social diversity conservation”. Peabiru works with the establishment of bridges between the private sector, non-profit organizations and traditional rural communities.

Geographic focus: Brazilian Amazon, especially in the Belém green belt (the island of Cotijuba), in the Amazon River estuary (largest humid area in the world, Caviana Island) and in the Pará- Maranhão coastal corridor (largest mangroves on Earth, especially in Curuçá).

Fields of interest: sustainable tourism, permaculture, tropical forest timber and non-timber products;

Funds: Our funds come from private sources. The majority comes from corporations such as PetroBras, Natura (largest Cosmetic Industry in Latin America), Sambazon, Unilever, Suzano Bahia Sul (one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Latin America), CBA – Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (one of the largest business groups in Brazil), Lexmark, Sucos del Valle and Timberland. The Institute also receives funds from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the AVINA Foundation.

Institutional Partnership: Peabiru works with public institutions such as Goeldi Museum (oldest research institute in the Amazon), the Para Federal University (UFPA), the Pará State Educational TV (Funtelpa) and the São Paulo University School of Communication and Arts - ECA/USP, and private organizations such as Centrais Elétricas do Pará (CELPA), Organizações Rômulo Maiorana and Ricoh.

NGO collaboration: Peabiru works with Argonautas, Associação Expedição Vagalume, Camping Clube do Brasil, Ibens, POEMA, Rádio Margarida, Sociedade Zeladora do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and, in Peru, with Solidar. 

Engagement in networks: we participate in the Pará State Commercial Association’s  (ACP) Social Responsibility Chamber, in the Rede GTA (600 social movements in the Amazon), ENCOGEO (Brazilian Coastal Management Network as Pará and Amapá representant), AVINA leaders and IAERT – International Association of Specialists in Rural Tourism, ABCR – Brazilian Association of Fund Raisers.