3°45′S 73°15′W — Iquitos, Loreto, Perú · Est. 2020

How do we make nature worth more intact than extracted? Can nature become an economic actor rather than merely an economic resource? Can technology give nature more than a price — can it give nature agency? If nature could take part in the decisions that affect it, would we still call it a resource? What is the Amazon worth, if no one has ever counted it?

AWAKEN brings together science, technology and capital to change nature’s place in the economy. We are starting in the Amazon Rainforest.

We work on two levels. The first is status. What can be measured can be financed; what can be financed can be defended. The aim is a forest that appears on a balance sheet, not just in a mission statement.

The second is stranger. By combining sensors, AI models and a digital representation of the forest, we are building a way to ask a living system a question — and receive an answer drawn from its own data.

Until now, every debate about nature has taken place without nature. The next one may not.

90,179

hectares of Amazon forest — first pilot site

How it started

A career in Ukraine's public institutions — a regional council, the Office of the President. Then burnout, and a decision to leave.

Fig. 1 / 11 — Before the Amazon

A ship from Barcelona to Brazil. Months in Amazon communities. Then Peru.

Fig. 2 / 11 — The way here

Fig. 3 / 11 — 2020 · A cooperation agreement with four riverside communities near Iquitos — the ground everything since has stood on.

Fig. 4 / 11 — 2021–2024 · A base built with the communities: 24 hectares, solar power, water treatment, Starlink, a helipad.

Fig. 5 / 11 — 2023–2024 · First guests — 96+ from 15 countries. Then the 2024 climate season: a storm, a drought, wind. The base closed.

Fig. 6 / 11 — 2024–2025 · Field expeditions on the river system with scientists from UNAP and IIAP.

Fig. 7 / 11 — Sept 2025 · A memorandum with the Regional Government of Loreto — a pilot on Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo, an expansion path across the region.

Fig. 8 / 11 — Sept 2025 · The Amazon eDNA library launched with the National University of the Peruvian Amazon.

Fig. 9 / 11 — Nov 2025 · Presented with Peru's Ministry of Environment at COP30, Belém.

Fig. 10 / 11 — Jul 2026 · A 90,179-hectare conservation concession approved by the Regional Government of Loreto — registration in progress.

Fig. 11 / 11 — Today · Building the infrastructure from inside the forest — not from a conference room.

01 — The case

Destruction pays today. A living forest pays no one.

Extraction converts forest into immediate income — timber, pasture, gold, a road. The value of a living ecosystem is dispersed, deferred and economically invisible. Markets cannot pay for what they cannot measure, so at every point of the Amazon the choice between cutting and keeping is a choice between a concrete sum today and an abstraction tomorrow.

We watch it happen on our own ground: a 97-kilometre road cuts through the landscape of our concession toward the Brazilian border, and every year new clearings appear along it.

AWAKEN gives the living forest an economy of its own: territory held under a conservation regime, measured from within, proven to independent standards, financed — with the money returning to the forest and the people who keep it standing.

17–20%

of the Amazon already lost

20–25%

estimated tipping point — savanna shift, >200 Gt CO₂ released

~2 days

between newly described Amazonian species — among the least-surveyed forests on Earth

97 km

road through our concession landscape — the clearing frontier we close

02 — What we do, and where it lives

Two things we do. Two places where they live.

Four directions, one system. Two are what we do: we build the data infrastructure, and an independent institute co-founded by the same team carries the science. Two are places where they live: a 90,179-hectare research territory and a 24-hectare built base, both in Loreto. None of them works alone. The science makes the data defensible; the territories are where instruments and models will be calibrated against the real forest; the base is where communities, researchers and visitors meet the forest all of this protects.

What we do

Data infrastructure CeibaQ Field measurement turned into high-integrity ecosystem data that governments, markets and scientists can check — the evidence layer beneath nature finance. We do not issue credits. 5 signal types · 1 USPTO application pending See how CeibaQ works →

Science TERI — Tropical Ecosystems Research Institute A non-profit research institute registered in Peru in 2025, co-founded by the same team and governed by its own presidency and statute. It leads the scientific program on the two territories and is co-applicant of the concession. 4 research directions · registered Oct 2025 See the research program →

Where it lives

Research territory The Concession 90,179 hectares of standing forest between the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo communal conservation area — the planned site of the research station and the sensor network, and the ground the whole system will be calibrated against. 90,179 ha · 40 years · approved Jul 2026, registration in progress See the territory →

Nature-based hospitality AWAKEN Sanctuary A built base 15 km from Iquitos, created with four neighbouring communities and designed so that hosting people in the forest pays for protecting it, with a planned horizon of more than 52,000 hectares of protected landscape. In restart after the climate events of 2024. 24 ha · 3,782 m² built 2021–2024 See AWAKEN Sanctuary →

03 — Operating cycle

Five steps, closed into a loop.

The point of the loop is the return: finance flows back into the territory and the people in it. Each cycle makes the next territory cheaper to protect.

Scroll → to see the full cycle

04 — Scale

Two territories are the proof. The basin is the horizon.

Phase	Area	Basis	Status
P1	90,179 ha	Own conservation concession, Loreto	Approved by GOREL Jul 2026 · registration in progress
P2	420,080 ha	Pilot on Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo regional conservation area	GOREL–TERI memorandum · PLANNED
P3	2,199,885 ha	Loreto's regional conservation areas — four ACRs	Expansion path in the same memorandum · PLANNED
P4	Basin	Nine Amazon territories — Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana	HORIZON

05 — Record of engagement

Institutions, on the record.

AWAKEN delegation at the MINAM stand, COP30 — **Fig. 2** — MINAM stand, COP30 Belém · Nov 2025

Working session at the Regional Government of Loreto — **Fig. 3** — Working session, GOREL, Iquitos · Sept 2025

AWAKEN and UNAP at the eDNA library launch — **Fig. 4** — eDNA library launch with UNAP · Sept 2025

Fleet study with the Peruvian Navy on the Amazon — **Fig. 5** — Fleet study, Marina de Guerra · Sept 2025

Institution	Form of cooperation	Confirming fact
MINAM — Ministry of Environment of Peru	Joint project presentation	COP30, Belém · Nov 2025
GOREL — Regional Government of Loreto	Memorandum	Pilot on Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo; expansion path 2,199,885 ha
SERFOR — National Forest Service	Memorandum of understanding	On file · in the dossier
OSINFOR — forest-resources oversight	Memorandum of understanding	On file · in the dossier
UNAP — National University of the Peruvian Amazon	Memorandum	Laboratories, field stations, joint research teams
IIAP — Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon	Scientific cooperation	Jenaro Herrera station
CCPIP — Chamber of Commerce of Indigenous Peoples	Framework agreement	10-year term
Embassy of Ukraine in Peru	Institutional support	With the Ukrainian-Peruvian Chamber of Commerce

06 — Founder

Olga Sytnyk, founder of AWAKEN — Olga Sytnyk · Ukraine → Peru · Est. 2020

You cannot protect, price or finance what you cannot measure. So we built the system that measures the Amazon from inside it.

On the ground in Loreto since 2020: trust built with Peru's institutions, the universities of the Amazon, and the communities beside our territories. What grew out of that work is one system — an independent scientific institute, a data infrastructure, ninety thousand hectares under a conservation regime, and a built base where people meet the forest all of this protects.

Olga Sytnyk

Founder, AWAKEN · Director, TERI · General Director, AWAKEN Management S.A.C.

07 — News & stories

People with names — and institutions behind them.

Olga Sytnyk

Founder & CEO

Director of TERI · General Director, AWAKEN Management S.A.C. Based in Iquitos, Loreto.

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Evgen Dykyi

President, TERI · Senior Scientific Advisor

Director of Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Center — operator of the Vernadsky station since 1996.

Fredy Francisco Ramírez Arévalo

Scientific Lead · Vice-President, TERI

Professor at the National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP); forest engineer and biologist.

Galiya Kobe

Director of Strategic Development & Partnerships

Institutional and partner relations across the AWAKEN group.

Luis Carlos Silva

Chief Financial Officer

Structured finance; based in Brussels.

Olena Koval

Communications Lead

17+ years in PR and journalism; led communications for national programs of Ukraine's ministries of Digital Transformation and Health.

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Olena Marushevska

Secretary, TERI · Water Ecosystems

Led the Ukrainian component of the Joint Danube Survey — Europe's largest river research program.

09 — Work with us

Three ways in.

InvestFor private investors and family offices in CeibaQ: the data room holds the positioning, the technical brief and the financial model.Open the CeibaQ data room ↗

Fund the programFor development banks, climate funds, foundations and public research funders: the conservation program on the concession, TERI's four research directions and the research station.Request the program brief

PartnerFor governments, universities and community organisations: memoranda, pilots on protected areas, joint field programs.Write to the founder

01 — CeibaQ · Intelligence & Finance · The first flagship product of AWAKEN

The Amazon Rainforest, measured from within.

CeibaQ uses direct field data and proprietary AI models to generate high-integrity, quantified ecosystem data — the evidence layer that governments, markets, insurers and scientists rely on to verify, price, account for and model nature.¹

Fig. 1 — The CeibaQ sensing stack, connected through a network of intelligence nodes.

01 — How it works

Multi-signal, whole-forest, live

Field measurements are calibrated and extended across the forest by proprietary AI models with quantified uncertainty — a queryable model of ecosystem conditions that can be independently verified by accredited third parties.

One dataset supports carbon, biodiversity, water and resilience-related environmental instruments. Continuously updated, queryable on demand. Measure once — update continuously.

What CeibaQ powers

Jurisdictional verification · environmental finance · ecosystem accounting · MRV-aligned data for carbon, biodiversity and water credits · scientific research · a calibration and benchmark layer for environmental AI.²

Built to be used by

Governments and jurisdictions · project developers · insurers and reinsurers · development banks and results-based funds · rating agencies · research institutes · environmental-AI developers.

The line we never cross

We do not issue credits. We do not define standards. We supply the evidence layer they rely on.

02 — Why the Amazon

We start where it matters most — and where the data is scarcest.

1 in 10

of all known species on Earth lives here — ~16,000 tree species, ~390 billion trees

150–200

Gt of carbon stored — one of the planet's largest living reserves

~1/5

of all river freshwater on Earth — ~200,000 m³ into the Atlantic every second

~25%

of modern medicines trace back to rainforest plants — a fraction of the flora studied

The forest makes its own rain: its flying rivers carry more water than the Amazon river itself, feeding farms and climate far beyond the forest. And it remains among the least-measured places on Earth — science still describes a new Amazonian species roughly every two days.

03 — Sovereign by design

The host nation's forest. The host nation's data rights.

CeibaQ is designed for integration with national forest-monitoring systems, with Free, Prior and Informed Consent from local and Indigenous communities, compliance with the Nagoya Protocol where applicable, and benefit-sharing by design.

1 — CeibaQ is pre-product: specifications describe design and intended coverage, not delivered scale. No client names are cited until contractual.

2 — Designed for compatibility with TFFF, LEAF, CORSIA, Article 6.2, SEEA-EA, Verra and ART-TREES — compatibility, not endorsement.

Investor data room ↗ ceibaq.com ↗

02 — TERI · Science · RUC 20615536386 · Iquitos, Loreto

Ukraine's first permanent research base in the tropics.

Tropical Ecosystems Research Institute — an independent scientific institute registered in Peru and co-applicant of the 90,179-hectare conservation concession. Its president directs Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Center — the institution that has kept the Akademik Vernadsky station running since 1996.

Field expedition by boat on the Amazon river system — **Fig. 1** — Field expedition on the river system, Loreto.

01 — Research program

Four directions. One forest, measured completely.

1 · Forest-measurement technology

A proving ground for new instruments: a three-tier ground network — acoustic, microclimate and soil nodes; camera-and-dendrometer hubs; reference stations measuring over 1,500 parameters — plus drone LiDAR, terrestrial laser scanning and satellite analysis. Sound alone yields two products: species counts for biodiversity, and chainsaw-, gunshot- and fire-recognition for alerts. One-hectare permanent plots are measured twice — classical forestry and laser — as the standard everything else is checked against.

2 · Biodiversity & genetic libraries

Species inventories plus the DNA barcodes and training-image sets most Amazonian species still lack — without them, no AI can work with living nature. Built on IIAP's laboratory and UNAP's database of Amazonian plants.

3 · Water ecosystems of the basin

River and floodplain surveys following the Joint Danube Survey methodology — Europe's largest river-research program, whose Ukrainian component was led by TERI's secretary. eDNA — one water sample reveals hundreds of species upstream — chemistry, microplastics, antibiotic resistance.

4 · A digital twin of the forest

All streams converge into one continuously updated 3D model of the territory: structure, biomass, hydrology, living cover. No comparable protected area of the Peruvian Amazon has one. Protocols are designed for open publication and annual natural-capital reporting.

02 — People

Antarctic discipline, Amazonian mission.

The institution behind TERI's presidency has kept a research station running at the end of the world since 1996. The Amazon station is built to the same standard.

Name	Role	Institutional fact
Evgen Dykyi	President	Director of Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Center — operator of the Akademik Vernadsky station since 1996
Olga Sytnyk	Director & legal representative	Founder of AWAKEN · General Director, AWAKEN Management S.A.C. · based in Iquitos
Fredy Francisco Ramírez Arévalo	Vice-President	Professor, National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP) · author of the Amazonian plants database
Olena Marushevska	Secretary	Led the Ukrainian component of the Joint Danube Survey — Europe's largest river research program

03 — Institutional base

Institution	Form of cooperation
UNAP — Faculty of Forest Sciences	Memorandum: laboratories, field stations, research teams
IIAP — Jenaro Herrera station	Scientific cooperation
GOREL — Regional Government of Loreto	Memorandum: pilot on Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo, expansion path 2,199,885 ha
MINAM — Ministry of Environment	Joint presentation, COP30 Belém · Nov 2025

Fund the science

03 — The Concession · 90,179 ha · Approved Jul 2026 · Registration in progress

Where the Amazon begins.

A conservation concession held for 40 years under a regime that excludes industrial extraction — the ground truth of the whole AWAKEN system, and the site of its research station and sensor network.

Official cadastral map of the conservation concession between Pacaya-Samiria and Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo — **Fig. 1** — Cadastral map, conservation concession application, 90,179 ha. Source: GOREL approval file, Jul 2026. Click to enlarge.

01 — Setting

Between two of Peru's great protected landscapes.

Northeastern Peru, region of Loreto — 35 million hectares of rainforest, over half of all Amazon forest in the country. The concession lies in the provinces of Requena and Mariscal Ramón Castilla, near the confluence of the Marañón and the Ucayali, where the Amazon river itself begins.

The territory fills the strip between the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo communal conservation area, to which it directly adjoins — together, a managed landscape of roughly 510,000 hectares. To the east, the block reaches the Yavarí basin and the Brazilian border; nearby lies the proposed Yavarí-Tapiche reserve, home to peoples living in voluntary isolation, which the system is designed never to touch.

Area	90,179 ha — one continuous block
Term	40 years · concesión para conservación
Applicants	AWAKEN Management S.A.C. — 43,343 ha · TERI — 46,835 ha
Forest	Lowland rainforest 73.8% · high terrace 18.3% · aguajal palm swamps 5.2% · low terrace 2.6% — TERI block 99.99% intact
Landscape	Completes ~510,000 ha with Pacaya-Samiria and Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo

Filed 23 Mar 2026 · Approved by GOREL 6 Jul 2026 · Registration in progress

02 — What lives here

The richest herpetofauna count on record for Loreto.

~1,650

plant species documented on the interfluve

~150

mammal species, incl. 13 primates — among them the vulnerable red uakari

~320

bird species

102

reptile & amphibian species — the record count for Loreto

Confirmed present: jaguar, giant otter, Amazonian tapir, giant armadillo, giant anteater, anaconda, black caiman. Species names are documented in the concession application file; Cacajao calvus ucayalii is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Species counts from the concession application file (GOREL, 2026), compiled from published surveys of the Yavarí–Ucayali interfluve. Full references in the dossier.

03 — The threat

A road with a price, next to a forest without one.

The 97-kilometre Jenaro Herrera — Colonia Angamos road cuts through this landscape toward the Brazilian border. It opened the forest's interior: every year, new clearings appear along it — forest cut and burned plot by plot, spreading from the existing settlements. Quarrying and artisanal brickmaking have already been recorded on the fragile white-sand forests. The strip of unprotected forest between the clearings and the protected areas grows narrower every year.

What the concession changes

It closes that strip — and puts a research station, a sensor network and a 40-year legal regime inside it.

Partner with us

04 — AWAKEN Sanctuary · Revenue → Protection · Santa Clara de Ojeal, Loreto

Presence that funds protection.

A built base on the Amazon river system, 15 km from Iquitos. Hosting people in the forest generates the revenue that funds conservation and science on the ground — operated together with four neighbouring communities under a cooperation agreement running since 2020.

Aerial photograph of the AWAKEN Sanctuary base at dawn — **Fig. 1** — The base at dawn: 24 ha, 3,782 m² built 2021–2024.

01 — The mechanism

Revenue stays on the ground.

Hosting people in the forest pays for protecting it — employment, benefit-sharing and science, with the communities of Santa Clara and Barrio Florido.

People come to the forest — small groups, retreats, expeditions, research stays. What they pay funds the conservation of the territory and the science conducted on it: employment, benefit-sharing and participation for the communities of Santa Clara Zona 1, 2, 3 and Barrio Florido.

The landscape grows with the mechanism: from 24 hectares toward a protected landscape of more than 52,000 — roughly 2,000 hectares of community land as a private conservation area (ACP), and a ~50,000-hectare ecotourism concession as an ecological corridor on adjacent public forest.¹

Demand validated: 96+ guests from 15 countries · In restart after the 2024 climate events

24 ha

SUNARP-titled · 3,782 m² built 2021–2024

4

communities · 1,500+ people · agreement since 2020

45

permanent jobs at operation · 400+ temporary during construction

52,000+

ha — the protected-landscape horizon · PLANNED

02 — Infrastructure

Off-grid, connected, guarded.

Solar power with backup generation. Water treatment and filtration with 2.5 hectares of reservoirs. Starlink connectivity. A 220 m² restaurant, a 180 m² yoga hall, a 200 m² gathering hall, staff housing, a tree platform and a private helipad, inside a guarded perimeter with three security gates.

Land purchased directly from the families who held it and titled with SUNARP; materials sourced locally. Ecological baseline studies with UNAP and IIAP form the foundation for the ACP designation. Under Ley 27037, operations in Loreto carry a reduced income-tax regime through 2048.

A villa of the base — jungle architecture in local materials — **Fig. 2** — Villa, local materials, built with the communities.

1 — The 52,000+ ha protected landscape is the planned horizon of this mechanism (ACP designation and SERFOR ecotourism concession), distinct from the 90,179-ha conservation concession described on its own page.

Contact

05 — News & record

A public record of the work.

Institutional agreements, field programs and public presentations — dated as they happened.

Nov 2025Presented with Peru's Ministry of Environment at COP30, BelémJoint project presentation with MINAM at the Peru pavilion, UN Climate Change Conference COP30.

Sept 2025Loreto and AWAKEN: a path to co-managed conservation areasMemorandum with the Regional Government of Loreto — pilot on Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo, expansion path across the region's conservation areas under the project "AWAKEN Inteligencia del Bosque".

Sept 2025AWAKEN & UNAP launch the Amazon eDNA libraryBuilding the genetic reference libraries most Amazonian species still lack — with the National University of the Peruvian Amazon.

Sept 2025Fleet study with the Peruvian Navy on the AmazonAssessing river logistics for the monitoring program on the Amazon's main waterways.

July 2025Ten-year framework with the Chamber of Commerce of Indigenous PeoplesA long-term framework agreement — cooperation with Indigenous organisations on monitoring and benefit-sharing.

Since 2020Four communities, one cooperation agreement1,500+ neighbours around the base: employment, participation and benefit-sharing, formalised since 2020.

Documentation for each entry — memoranda, photographs, approval files — is available in the dossier on request.