The Amazon Conservation Vision is a regional initiative developed by the protected area directors and staff of the national protected areas systems (PAS) of the Amazon Countries to support the implementation of the Program of Work on Protected Areas - PoWPA of the CBD in the Amazon Region, which builds on the progress of the PoWPA of each of the Amazon countries and the existing systems of protected areas, integrating with the indigenous reserves, territories or lands according to each national approach as well as incluiding and promoting some trans-boundary conservation initiatives.

This approach builds complementary across the national systems of protected areas and ensures greater representation of all ecosystem types, the maintenance of ecological services, and greater resilience of the Amazon Biome to the threats of climate change, all depending on the biome functioning as a whole. The nine countries have agreed to strengthen technical elements that are broadly applicable and relevant for the protected areas of the Amazon. This initiative was officially supported by eight countries from the region.

The initiative was built based on the declaration of the II Latin American Congress for National Parks and other Protected Areas ( Bariloche, September 30TH- October 6th, 2007) - after a seminar organised by the Colombian National Parks Authority and WWF, and a session with ACTO - which states the importance of developing ecological networks and protected areas systems at all levels, with a particular emphasis on a (bio)- regional focus, including the case of the Amazon region, also recognizing all the work of initiatives such as the ACTO in the Biodiversity Action Plan. Moreover, it was supported at the IV World Conservation Congress ( Barcelona, October 5- 14, 2008), where IUCN approvec the motion to "Build a Vision for Conservation of the Amazon Biome". To support such initiative, the Memorandum of Understanding was between REDPARQUES, the CBD Secretariat WWF and IUCN (November 2009, with the purpose of strengthening the technical support for the development of the conservation vision for the Amazon Biome and the implementation of the action plan on a regional level.