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Investing in women, restoring the rainforest.

Ka’a Harmony connects women-led community initiatives in the Amazon with European partners to strengthen climate justice.

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<1%

of climate finance reaches the women and traditional communities on the front line.

Why this matters

Those who protect the forest deserve to be heard – and funded.

Climate justice

Women and traditional communities are on the front line of climate change, yet receive less than 1% of climate finance.

Nature-based solutions

Amazonian women protect biodiversity and forests through nature-based solutions rooted in ancestral knowledge and community leadership.

Systems change

Systemic change requires coalition – bridging grassroots leadership in the Amazon with European partners, resources and networks for collective impact.

Deforestation in the Amazon

How much rainforest disappears – year by year?

Move the slider through more than 35 years of official satellite data and see how large the cleared area really is.

Year 2025

5,796 km²

of rainforest cleared

−11.1% vs. the previous year

  • ≈ 6.5 ×the area of Berlin
  • ≈ 105,000 ×Berlin's Olympic Stadium
  • ≈ 289Olympic Stadiums – every day

1 square = the area of Berlin (891 km²)

Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988–2025, in km²

Cleared in total, 1988–2025

503,248 km²≈ 1.4 × the area of Germany

Source: INPE / PRODES – annual clear-cut rate for the Legal Amazon; a year runs from August to July. * 1988: average 1977–1988 · 1993/1994: average of both years. Olympic Stadium incl. stands ≈ 5.5 ha. View data at INPE

Show data as table
YearArea (km²)
1988*21,050
198917,770
199013,730
199111,030
199213,786
1993*14,896
1994*14,896
199529,059
199618,161
199713,227
199817,383
199917,259
200018,226
200118,165
200221,651
200325,396
200427,772
200519,014
200614,286
200711,651
200812,911
20097,464
20107,000
20116,418
20124,571
20135,891
20145,012
20156,207
20167,893
20176,947
20187,536
201910,129
202010,851
202113,038
202211,594
20239,064
20246,518
20255,796

Less is not enough.

The decline since 2021 is no accident. Indigenous peoples, riverside communities and, above all, women on the ground protect their forests every day – backed by protected areas, enforcement and community projects like the ones we stand alongside.

But less does not mean enough: thousands of square kilometres still disappear every year, and every success can quickly be lost again. Now is the time for more support – not less.

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The forest’s guardians are its best investment – and its most overlooked.

80%
of the Amazon’s remaining biodiversity is protected by Indigenous and riverside communities
<1%
of global climate funding reaches them
Ka'a Harmony community event in Berlin with a hand-painted pirarucu banner

Our approach

How Ka’a Harmony creates impact

  1. 01

    Support women-led Amazonian initiatives

    We amplify and support grassroots projects led by women working in conservation, socio-bioeconomy and community resilience.

  2. 02

    Bridge the Amazon & Europe

    We connect local leaders with European foundations, companies, investors and institutions committed to climate justice.

  3. 03

    Enable nature-based solutions to scale

    Through storytelling, events, matchmaking and co-creation, we help transform local solutions into global impact.

What we offer

On the ground

Projects we support

Community-led conservation in the Mamirauá reserve and the Juruá river basin.

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Partners & collaborators

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Regular donations let us plan ahead: amplifying Amazonian voices in Europe, organising events and connecting local impact with global solidarity.

Foundations, companies & institutions

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Ka’a Journal

Latest stories from the Amazon

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· 6 min read

Cocoa and the forest: when the cocoa bioeconomy really delivers

Cocoa can destroy forest – or keep it standing. A look at where cocoa comes from, its two faces, and what the bioeconomy in the Brazilian Amazon does differently.

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· 2 min read

Uakari Lodge: how guests help protect the rainforest

A floating lodge in the middle of the flooded forest, run together with the communities of the Mamirauá reserve. A project we support – and an example of how tourism can strengthen the forest.

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Newsletter #2 · · 3 min read

Newsletter #2: Mangroves, cacao and a summer full of encounters

Why mangroves are the Amazon’s most underrated ecosystem, how Noanny Maia is reviving her grandparents’ cacao legacy – and what we experienced at Amazon Week Berlin and in Hamburg.

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Drop us a line

Ka'a Harmony Foundation
Berlin, Germany

terenzi@kaaharmony.com