The Decarbonized.org ACT NOW AMAZONAS ACTION ALLIANCE team has been officially chosen as a qualifying team for the XPRIZE Rainforest competition! View press release from Bloomberg News below on June 22, 2021. ACT NOW Team is also featured on AMAZON ALIVE broadcast for World Unity Week, as co-producers, via www.Unify.org and has 2 hours of programming with the "ACT NOW" TEAM and Scientists: This can be viewed at the 4 Hours 30 Minutes slot, on this facebook video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hw2gHRcEWI

The ACT NOW *FORESTLABS team is co-led by Amazonian Indigenous Leaders, Scientist and Entrepreneurs, *Fiona Banister, a Climate Impact Strategist, Sustainability Educator and Naiara Yusy Sampaio Dolabella, (NAIARA Tukano) Environmental Lawyer, Indigenous Leader from the Ye'pa Mahsa nation in Brazil with other strong global Leaders. See actions with www.COBRACANOA.com with the vital projects in their community in BRAZIL. Maria Clara Sharupi Jua \* from the Shuar nation in Ecuador is a Poet, Author and Visionary. We are aligned with Chabeli Chain, a creative artist and she is a strong co-leader on this journey supporting different visionary stake-holders on Climate and inclusion issues.

The **Decarbonized.org** ACT NOW FORESTLABS global team has been chosen for XPRIZE Rainforest as a qualifying team for the 2024 challenge. The ACTNOW team is co-led with Indigenous Women Leaders, Scientist, Global Educators and GreenTEAM YOUTH STEM Engineering interns providing an interactive Education Model as ForestLABS Co-Leaders. ACT NOW Co-Founders and the innovative education STEM team have developed an interactive, open source model with our GREEN Team and have completed a submission for the **MIT 'SOLVE' - Resilient Ecosystems** challenge. **Decarbonized.org** is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (* Aligned with the UN) we are a project within www.partnershipsforchange.org, dedicated to catalyzing climate solutions and promoting sustainable development, inclusion and equality. https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/resilient-ecosystems/solutions/50294

XPRIZE Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the global leader in designing and implementing innovative competition models to solve the world’s grandest challenges. Active competitions include the $100 Million Carbon Removal, $20 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, $10 Million XPRIZE Rainforest, $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE, $5 Million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE and the $5 Million XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling. For more information, visit the website here.

ACTNOW FORESTLABS, has also applied for consideration in: *MIT Solve Resilient Ecosystems (https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/resilient-ecosystems#challenge-subnav-offset) challenge is a competition designed to cultivate social impact innovation and solve global sustainability challenges. The challenge seeks technology-based solutions that help communities restore, sustain, and preserve their ecosystems. View the ACT NOW submissions for the *MIT Solve Resilient Ecosystems-challenge [here\](https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/resilient-ecosystems/solutions/50294)

INDIGENOUS CO-LED WOMEN SCIENCE TEAM. We have an innovative global team, combining Dynamic Robotics Engineering from Women Led Tech Lab in Turkey with New Zealand Maori Environmental Educators, Shuar Engineers, Authors, Medicinal Ceremonial Leaders, Environmental Lawyers, Farmers, all in collaboratiion with Global Youth STEM Engineering GreenTEAM. *RESILIENT ECO-SYSTEMS: We are empowering socio-economic community led co-operative projects for conservation protection of Natural Capital Resources. Developing scientific data backed multi-species Forest Regeneration programs on degraded cattle land, cultivating agroforestry for optimal food production and protection programs of co-op nurseries for the reseach of essential medicinal herbal plants and biodiversity conservation.

ForestLABS PROJECT SCALE STRATEGY: Catalyzing solutions with adaptive technology, using biomimicry design in an organic process, building low cost, scalable models. We are using open sourced principles, innovating with the next generations, evolving the tech for adaptation within their community needs, protecting biodiversity, human resources and the environment.

Our ACTNOW team at Decarbonized.org has taken the XPRIZE Rainforest competition as an opportunity to innovate with XPRIZE through a team based submission>under the team name “ACT NOW”- Amazonas Action Alliance. With our qualifying application for XPRIZE competition and with our joint alliances driving climate investing, we are open to the opportunity to build up collaborators, sponsors, Green investors to develop longterm strategies and relationships.

**ACT NOW** **FORESTLABS** plans to utilize low cost, scalable, autonomous methods to collect, record and process data. With the support of open-source programs. With the Rainforest Connection’s AudioMoth we can then use open source data and RFCx’s Arbimon technology to be able to measure surrounding ecosystems with audio collection, utilizing both public and private global template libraries to confirm biodiversity data analysis. Further, we will merge datasets with ESRI ArcGIS systems to provide detailed summaries for analysis in order to help catalyze conservation solutions. Additionally, we can leverage Verses.io data analysis AGI to assist in data processing and management adding an additional level of scalability for global protection models. **FORESTLABS** open-source data will help to empower global Indigenous communities and foster biodiversity insights across all rainforests. These centers will be led by indigenous members supporting communities in building their own scalable projects to suit their socio-environmental needs. Imagine electric boats with solar panels and ForestLABS on board collecting data and sharing resources in river systems. Communities bringing inclusion projects. **FORESTLABS** open-source data tracking will help in supporting indigenous communities to enter into a role to participate in the international carbon market models and eventually help them to be paid to protect their forest via funding, loans and blockchain platforms, so that all may mutually thrive. **ACT NOW** brings together the collective experiences of global changemakers ensuring that we are co-creating diverse solutions that meet the vast needs of the rainforest and the stewards who guard them. Through our methodologies we will accelerate rainforest protection efforts by developing open-source educational platforms, **FORESTLABS**, showcasing biodiversity libraries of rare plants and species precious to local communities and support educational platforms where essential knowledge can be shared and can be conserved. **SCALE:** We will expand quickly so to build protection models, and scale up ForestLABS, and disseminate knowledge via NGO efforts, media, internet, blockchain, and open source platforms at **FORESTLABS.**

The Decarbonized.org ACT NOW team consists of partners and members from around the globe. Our team is co-led by \*Naiara Tukano and her Brazil based team in www.Cobracanoa.com and Amazonian Indigenous Biodiversity Environmental Biologists and Fiona Banister (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-b-31a210a0/), a Sustainability Catalyst Educator and Micro-finance consultant and an advisory board member for www.amazoninvestor.org. Maria Clara Sharupi Jua is a strong Shuar leader of a women's coallition and an Ecuadorian poet, presenter, and a powerful writer in the Shuar Indigenous language of the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin. Chabeli Chain is an Indigenous Social Rights Leader, Artist, Musician and a youth leader with a strong voice for change. The multiple competition submissions are supported by the university student interns, “GREEN TEAM”, empowering environmental impact educational projects for women and girls with STEAM/STEM think tanks, media and awareness campaigns. ACT NOW is supported by Panamanian Biodiversity Biologist Julieta Carrion and Biodiversity Mammal Specialist, Rafael Samudio at SOMASPA group in Panama. (https://www.facebook.com/somaspa2000/) NGO. The \*FORESTLABS\* outreach project will grow, driven by rainforests scientists and Indigenous teams from New Zealand to South Africa, utilizing dynamic support from experts and sacred medicine specialists. We are supported by innovative mentors and groups like: Topher White (RFCX.org (https://rfcx.org/) Victor Salviati an Environmental Scientist and MBA graduate leading the innovation and institutional development at Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (\[Fas-Amazonas.org](https://fas-amazonia.org/)), Iliana Armien ([FuturoForestal.com](https://futuroforestal.com/)), Māori environmental scientist and educator, [Tenia Boasa-Dean (https://www.linkedin.com/in/teina-boasa-dean-88957b52/#) Executive Manager at BHW Land Trust, www.gaiaamazonas.org and other supporters who seek to empower indigenous led teams acting as cultural liaisons, mentors and educators. We are growing, as we intend to scale and are open to collaborations with the *FORESTLABS teams with strong global mentors, including Marcelo Shama (Brazil AMAZONA Team), Dan Mapes ([Verses.io](https://www.verses.io/)), Martin and Francisco Von Hildebrand the Honorary President/Founder, and Executive Director respectively at www.Gaiaamazonas.org (Colombia) (https://www.gaiaamazonas.org/)), Jonas Whitkamper the Co-Founder and President of the Nexus Global Youth Summit and Co-Founder of [AmazonInvestor.org](https://amazoninvestor.org), Dr. Danielle Rappaport (Ph.D.) an Earth’s systems scientist and entrepreneur at [AmazonInvestor.org](https://amazoninvestor.org) with many more alliances for impact. We invite you to join us and meet part of our team to get to know some of our deep-thinkers, GreenTEAM tech scientists, and change-makers by watching our *ACT NOW* Team Video below!

FORESTLABS global stations create positive longer term impact education models, equipped with low cost scalable technology tools, and BioBOTS (low-cost, autonomous data collection robots), that will help empower the stewards of the rainforests. Re-invigorating the collective conservation efforts and respecting historical traditions and practices of the local Indigenous communities, supporting protection for the next generations and learning from them on natural balance.

FORESTLABS project data will allow all multi-stakeholders to better understand the composition of the rainforest, while helping stop illegal resource extraction, wildlife poaching, logging and move to a more ethical socio-environmental justice model. This data enables deeper understanding of the relationships between different species within the ecosystem. ACT NOW’s collaborative approach of working alongside the Indigenous population(s) will foster positive social alliances creating mutually beneficial relationships without forcibly intruding on or harming their land. FORESTLABS will enable protection for natural capital solutions and support the resources to be monitored and monetized via programs utilizing Blockchain tracing 'cradle to cradle' and empowering other measurment technologies. With our philosophy to empower tech for good, we hope this will result in the eventual participation, entrance of their communities to be able to have a shared value model in the carbon markets. Opening up a new shared market model access is part of our plan, leading to more inclusion projects and help to drive direct funding to the Indigenous peoples as stewards protecting the global rainforests.