Protecting the Amazon’s Last Great Flying River
More than 120 million hectares of Northern Amazon rainforest have been protected - an extraordinary achievement helping sustain the Amazon’s Last Great Flying River. The frontline leaders behind that achievement created Airios to unlock the global capital needed to secure what has been won and extend protection further - while there is still time.
Something extraordinary is in danger.
The Amazon makes its own rain. Billions of trees release vast quantities of water into the atmosphere, creating invisible rivers in the sky that sustain the rainforest. These Flying Rivers move more water each day than the world’s largest river - the Amazon River below.
This is bigger than the rainforest or climate change alone. It is about water security far beyond the Amazon.
20 trillion
Litres of water released each day
1,000 L
From a single large tree, daily
1billion+
People downstream of this rain
But these great rivers are disappearing. Deforestation and degradation are breaking the dense, connected forests that sustain them - threatening the Amazon’s ability to sustain itself.
We are approaching the point where only one great Flying River remains.
We know how to protect it.
The Last Great Flying River still survives, sustained by a Northern Amazon where more than 120 million hectares of rainforest have been protected - one of the world’s greatest unheralded environmental achievements.
Behind that achievement are Indigenous peoples, frontline organisations and governments that have spent decades keeping this vast connected forest standing and functioning.
The result is proof: large-scale rainforest conservation works - but there is more to protect, and what has been won still has to be sustained.
The missing ingredient is capital.
Northern Hemisphere funding is abundant, but too little reaches the frontline Southern organisations and indigenous communities doing the work. Instead, layers of institutions and intermediaries add cost and distance between capital and proven impact.
Airios was created to close that gap - to connect global philanthropy and private capital to proven Amazon impact while developing new financial mechanisms to unlock capital at scale.
There is no shortage of organisations asking for money to save the planet. Airios offers something different: proven people, proven impact and a direct path to put more capital behind what is already working.
The Last Great Flying River is still alive, but what has been won is not secure. We have the proof. We have the people. Now we need the capital - while there is still time.
Put your capital behind proven impact.
Help protect the Amazon’s Last Great Flying River and scale the work already making a difference.
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