Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest the forest is still shrinking.<ref name="INPE/Prods satellite data"> INPE figures August to July.</ref> Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg announced on September 16, 2008, that Norway's government would donate US $1 billion to the newly established Amazon fund. The money from this fund would go to projects aimed at slowing down the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. In September 2015, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff told the United Nations that Brazil had effectively reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon by 82 percent. She also announced that over the next 15 years, Brazil aimed to eliminate illegal deforestation, restore and reforest
Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest organization of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA). AIDESEP was founded by: Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest The Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (Spanish: "Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana" - AIDESEP) is a Peruvian national indigenous rights organization, presided over by a decentralized National Council. The organization comprises 57 federations and territorial organizations. These organizations represent 1,350 communities of roughly 350,000 indigenous people who speak a plurality of languages. Members of AIDESEP work to improve the health, education, housing, and organization of indigenous peoples.