The rainforest and the mountain range share the same heartbeat.

That is why, with every transaction, Festival Cordillera will support the management and maintenance of 1,200 m² of Amazon rainforest, boost Indigenous and local bio-businesses, and generate sustainable cycles of care, regeneration, and long-term impact.

Created by NESsT and Páramo Impacta, this impact investment fund is driven by music and culture to protect our essential global ecosystem—working hand-in-hand with those who have been doing so for generations.

Protecting the Amazon means caring for our future.

The Amazon Basin Today

Home to more than 30 million people and 10% of the Earth’s species, the Amazon contains 20% of the world’s fresh water, and serves as an important anchor for South American climate and rainfall.

But the Amazon could disappear in our lifetimes.

Deforestation and unsustainable development has led to ecosystem stress, increased fire occurrence and a rise in carbon emissions that threaten the lives of communities living in the Amazon first, and the global climate.

The First Impact Fund Powered by the Music Industry

20,000 hectares

of protected rainforest

500

local jobs created

projected results of the NESsT x Páramo partnership

Who We Support

Ecos por la Amazonía supports 5 small and medium-sized enterprises in the NESsT Amazonia portfolio contributing to positive social and environmental change.

Portfolio Gallery

AMITLI

Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas Trabajadoras de La Libertad (AMITLI) is a women-led association in the remote rural area of the Vaupés in the Colombian Amazon – a region marked by poverty, lack of infrastructure, and the presence of armed groups.

Asozhonm

Founded in 2018, Asozhonm has developed a sustainable tourism model around these natural wonders, offering guided experiences that educate visitors while generating income for over 70 community members—many of whom previously relied on artisanal mining, fishing, or subsistence agriculture.

Bioingredientes Amazónicos

Bioingredientes Amazónicos (“BioIncos”) sources wild fruits from Indigenous communities in the Amazon Piedmont in Colombia and transforms them into natural oils for use in the cosmetics industry.

Chunaky Baru

Chunaky Baru is an Indigenous-led association dedicated to advancing the livelihoods of artisans in the San José community in the Colombian Amazon.

Painü

Associación Intercomunitaria Painü (“Painü) was founded over ten years ago in Leticia, Amazonas to improve the livelihoods the Indigenous communities of the Yahuarcaca Lakes while protecting their territory and recovering and preserving ancestral knowledge.

**Photo:** Chunaky Baru, an Indigenous artisan association in the NESsT Amazonia portfolio

Traditional communities - either Indigenous or riverine - have been the traditional custodians of the Amazon rainforest. Today they share the forests with a growing number of settlers who seek to tap into the Amazon's considerable natural resources.

NESsT Amazonia in Colombia supports Indigenous enterprises emerging to connect remote areas of the Amazon to sustainable markets, including in eco-tourism, fisheries, superfoods including coffee and cacao, nuts, seeds, and plants for medicinal or cosmetic uses (such as andiroba, muru muru, as well as ucuuba).

While they may not yet meet the traditional standards of investment-readiness and commercial viability, these early-stage Indigenous eco-enterprises have the potential to improve living conditions and regenerative conservation in the Amazon basin at scale.

NESsT Amazonia

NESsT’s work in Amazonia fosters a sustainable, thriving socio-bioeconomy. It achieves this goal by accelerating businesses that contribute to sustainable value chains while respecting and embedding natural cycles, ancestral practices, and community-led governance. Enterprises in the NESsT Amazonia portfolio include climate-smart solutions, Indigenous-led enterprises, and companies that are led by, engage regularly, and are in partnership with local communities.

The program puts a strong emphasis on creating sustainable livelihoods that care for the forest. The program applies a gender-lens approach to ensure women can make dignified incomes from the harvesting, managing, and monitoring of forest resources.

NESsT Amazonia operates in areas of high biodiversity of the rainforest across Colombia, as well as Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, including protected areas, reserves, and regenerative conservation units, as well as their buffer and transition zones.