The situation in the Amazon rainforest is dire.

So much of the rainforest has now been carved up that scientists say we're reaching the point of collapse. Yet governments are still accelerating the destruction.

And so at this critical moment, the best thing we can do is to stand with the people who've protected the rainforest for centuries.

Indigenous communities don't just live in the Amazon, they are part of it. Their entire way of life is intimately tied to the forest's survival, and it's no accident that the most healthy parts of the Amazon are in their hands.

But too often, their rights to the land are denied, overlooked, unrecognised in law.

What they need sounds bureaucratic -- land titles, spatial mapping, legal recognition -- but it's really simple. They need help in order to keep the Amazon in their hands, locked away from governments and corporations that would strip it to the bones.

With your support, communities could buy vast areas of rainforest, secure legal deeds, fund land mapping to prove their ancestral rights -- and launch huge protests to stop the chainsaws before it's too late.

What happens to the Amazon will affect every single one of us. It needs urgent protection. No one will fight harder than the Indigenous communities who already call it home.

We've heard the fire and determination in their voices -- and they are counting on us. Please donate what you can now.