Machalilla National Park · Ecuadorian Pacific
CONMAR
Community-linked marine conservation working with coastal communities on coral restoration in the Salango and Ciriales reef systems, environmental education and participatory monitoring.
Allies of the territory.We back the people protecting Latin America's most vital ecosystems.
We connect funders with trusted community conservation and territorial stewardship initiatives across Latin America — without imposed agendas.
GROUNDED IN LOCAL CONSENTJustice-rooted
WHY IT MATTERS
The people protecting critical ecosystems often receive the least support.
Communities already govern these ecosystems
Some of the world's most important forests, rivers, coastlines, and marine ecosystems are not protected by governments or international organizations alone. They are stewarded every day by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities ().
These communities hold deep ecological knowledge and long-standing stewardship traditions — protecting ecosystems that local livelihoods and global climate stability both depend on.
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Yet the finance doesn't follow
continue to face barriers to funding, visibility, and long-term support. Supporters face the mirror of that problem: how do you find opportunities that are credible, community-led, and capable of real outcomes?
Most climate finance follows convenience, visibility, and what's easy to measure — not where it's needed most. is here to help close that gap — connecting trusted community-led initiatives with aligned supporters
Partner projects
Real territories. Real outcomes.
Ecuadorian Amazon · Rights
Colectivo de Mujeres Amazónicas
Women-led Indigenous collective focused on territorial defense, environmental justice and protection of Amazonian communities and defenders.
Kichwa Territory · Ecuadorian Amazon
Sarayaku
Internationally recognized Kichwa community advancing the Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest) proposal — one of the Amazon's reference models for Indigenous territorial governance.
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Open PortfolioHow we work
One trusted
point of contact
for both sides.
We connect committed capital with community-led initiatives — directly, transparently, and on the community's terms.
Capital integrity
100% of committed project capital reaches the community.
* An operational fee of 8-12% (depending on project scope) is invoiced separately. It covers critical operations such as coordination, due diligence, monitoring and reporting.
The bottom line
A trusted, transparent way to fund real community-led work — with proximity, integrity, and far less friction.
Who we work with
Funders comfortable with early-stage, relationship-based work.
We partner with allies who value trust, local context, and long-term collaboration over rigid frameworks — and who want their capital to land where it actually moves the needle.
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HNWIsHigh-net-worth individuals
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Private foundationsPrivate foundations
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Family officesFamily offices
How we work
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Investor, ally, academia or simply curious — a sentence is enough to start.
Or write directly to hello@territoryallies.org
Ready to back what already works?
Whether you fund, build or accompany — there's a way in.
Sources & references+
- 1.Protected Planet — Indigenous & Community Conserved Areas
- 2.CIFOR-ICRAF, Publication 6991
- 3.Nature Sustainability (2021), s41893-021-00803-6
- 4.IKI — State of IPLCs' Lands and Territories Report
- 5.UN Decade on Restoration — Climate finance & Indigenous Peoples
- 6.Rainforest Foundation Norway — Less than a fifth of IPLC funding reaches communities
- 7.OECD — Biodiversity and Development Finance 2015–2022 (PDF)
- 8.Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), COP Decision — Terminology 'indigenous peoples and local communities' (paragraph F)
- 9.IPBES — Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities glossary