Andes Amazon Fund

🏔️ Located in Ecuador’s Bolivar province the newly created Bolivar Provincial Conservation Area safeguards over 100,000 acres of páramos, or high #mountain #wetlands which provide critical wildlife habitat and #water storage for half a million people. The area will also support sustainable livelihood initiatives and incorporate local knowledge for conservation. The Bolivar Provincial Conservation Area was created thanks to the dedication of the Decentralized Autonomous Government of the Bolivar Province, local communities, and our partners at Ecopar/BYOS. 🌿 ⏩ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ekvJFgDm 📸: Soaring to a height of 20,549 ft. (6263 meters) above sea level, the Chimborazo volcano is the highest peak in Ecuador. Its páramos are part of the new provincial conservation area in Bolivar. ©Ecopar

A través del Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas de Perú, el Ministerio del Ambiente Peruano ha impulsado el desarrollo de 59 emprendimientos sostenibles en el ámbito de las áreas naturales protegidas. 🦋 🌵🦅 Uno de estos proyectos se localiza en la Reserva Nacional Illescas, un refugio de aves migratorias que recorre la costa del Pacífico de la región de Piura. Andes Amazon Fund contribuyó hacia el manejo inicial de la Reserva Nacional Illescas. En el marco de emprendedores por la Naturaleza cuatro emprendimientos fueron beneficiados en la Reserva Nacional Illescas con un enfoque en ecoturismo y artesanías. La mitad de los emprendimientos beneficiados en la Reserva Nacional Illescas son liderados por mujeres. En total este año 16 emprendimientos son liderados por mujeres y más de la mitad de las propuestas ganadoras son encabezadas por comunidades locales. Se contó con el apoyo de Profonanpe, Petrotal, CIMA, Conservation International, AIDER y Andes Amazon Fund para el apoyo a los emprendedores por la Naturaleza. 💚 Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado - SERNANP, Conservamos por Naturaleza Lee más aquí: https://lnkd.in/eQ-VR7u5

Andes Amazon Fund is Celebrating 10 Years! It's hard to believe a #decade has passed since we started our #work to protect critical ecosystems! Over the last ten years, our support has enabled: 📍the protection of 195 new priority sites for biodiversity, #climate, and people 🌳the safeguarding of 38 million acres (15 m ha)- 3x the size of Costa Rica! 🌿the strengthening of management across 121 million acres of recently-established #conservation areas 🚰enhanced #water security for 15 million people These numbers are a testament to the hard work and #collaboration of our 44 partner organizations across Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil, local and #Indigenous communities, and governments in the region. From protecting irreplaceable biodiversity and freshwater to supporting local communities and tackling #deforestation, our #impact is far-reaching. We've also helped our partners secure over $150 million in government #funding to ensure the longevity of these efforts. We're proud to be part of this journey towards a healthier Andes and #Amazon, and none of this would be possible without our incredible donors and partners. Thank you for your support, and please join us as we enter the next decade of protecting the most biodiverse landscapes on Earth! Make sure to check out our latest impact report: https://lnkd.in/ebr8tiYd

Andes Amazon Fund is Celebrating 10 Years! It's hard to believe a #decade has passed since we started our #work to protect critical ecosystems! Over the last ten years, our support has enabled: 📍the protection of 195 new priority sites for biodiversity, #climate, and people 🌳the safeguarding of 38 million acres (15 m ha)- 3x the size of Costa Rica! 🌿the strengthening of management across 121 million acres of recently-established #conservation areas 🚰enhanced #water security for 15 million people These numbers are a testament to the hard work and #collaboration of our 44 partner organizations across Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil, local and #Indigenous communities, and governments in the region. From protecting irreplaceable biodiversity and freshwater to supporting local communities and tackling #deforestation, our #impact is far-reaching. We've also helped our partners secure over $150 million in government #funding to ensure the longevity of these efforts. We're proud to be part of this journey towards a healthier Andes and #Amazon, and none of this would be possible without our incredible donors and partners. Thank you for your support, and please join us as we enter the next decade of protecting the most biodiverse landscapes on Earth! Make sure to check out our latest impact report: https://lnkd.in/ebr8tiYd

In Brazil, July 17 is the National Forest Protection Day. A time to reflect, support and amplify examples of mobilization between governments, society and the third sector that seek to conserve Brazilian forests and our biological and cultural diversity. Learn about the project to create a Conservation Unit focused on giant trees in the Amazon.  The conservation initiative is led by the Governo do Estado do Pará, through the Institute for Forest and Biodiversity Development. The project has a partnership with the Instituto Federal do Amapá - IFAP, the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability and funding from the Andes Amazon Fund. 📹🌎💚 Watch, share the video and follow our profiles to find out more about the conservation plans for giant trees in the Amazon! #ForestProtectionDay #GiantTrees #Amazon Images: Fernando Sette  

Governo do Estado do Pará Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (FAS) Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade | SEMAS Ideflor-Bio Andes Amazon Fund Um projeto emblemáticos e importantes! São as maiores árvores da Amazônia e uma das maiores do mundo!! Protege-las, além de simbólico, permitirá entender como elas crescem 2-3x mais que outros indivíduos Vale comentar que este projeto teve dois "santos casamenteiros": Mauro O'de Almeida e Ana Cristina Barros 🌳🔆

Last week I had the honor of participating in an event convened in Colombia between the Colombian government, civil society organizations, and the Indigenous, Afrodescendant, and campesino movements to discuss their contributions to the country’s environmental conservation goals as it approaches hosting the UN’s global biodiversity summit later this year. Moments like this are a great privilege to hear from folks that have been on the front lines of defending the ecosystems that even we in the United States benefit from although we’re a continent away. The freshwater that we enjoy for example can indeed at least in part be traced back to places like the Colombian Amazon through the regional climate system… I’m here in this photo with one of the grand masters, Jaime Arias from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, more specifically the Kankuamo Indigenous reserve, whose people’s territory depends on the snow and rains from the high mountains nearby, where few know still have glaciated peaks despite being so close to the Caribbean. Jaime is one of the original leaders of the Kankuamo Indigenous government, and now is one of the strategic advisors for the collective Indigenous movement of the Sierra Nevada. His people have a history of resistance, where they were displaced from their lands during Colombia’s internal conflict in recent decades. Jaime and the Kankuamos are now going through a process of reclaiming the lands that they’ve lost. A couple years ago, our partners the Amazon Conservation Team helped the Kankuamos expand their titled territory to reclaim some of that land with the Andes Amazon Fund’s support, where I got to visit their territory and learn more about their story that’s so intertwined with the landscapes around them. Now they’re homing in on formally expanding their territory once more, hopefully in the next year or so. Meeting people like Jaime is truly humbling for those of us who have never known such struggle to safeguard the ecosystems that keep our communities thriving, where in the United States in particular our society in general doesn’t seem to realize how dependent we will always be on nature to provide for us as we further separate ourselves with more concrete, mechanized everything, and gadgets that distract us from the world around us and lead us to forget how connected we all really are. Working to support people like the Kankuamos gets me up in the morning, when I count my blessings that the days I spend are dedicated to hopefully having some small but positive impact on their lives, not to mention on the trees and creatures that call their lands home. Anyway, I suppose the message here is to ask folks to consider that our home needs us to look after it so it can look after us now more than ever, and to perhaps take a page out of the Kankuamo’s book of action because a future with clean air, soil, water, and a livable planet overall is far from promised.

𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝘂𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 A new #conservation area was declared last month in Ecuador’s Bolivar province! Spanning 105,978 acres, the Bolivar Provincial Conservation and Sustainable Use Area safeguards a continuous landscape of páramos, or high #mountain wetlands on the flanks of Chimborazo, Ecuador's highest #volcano. In addition to protecting drinking #water for over 500,000 people in the Bolivar province, the new conservation area will also support #sustainable livelihood initiatives and incorporate local knowledge for conservation. The #process to create the Bolivar Provincial Conservation Area began in 2022. Local communities, governments, and scientists, including those of our partner organization Corporación ECOPAR took notice of the growing #threat of agricultural expansion in Bolivar. An area equivalent to over 4,000 football fields of #nature is lost annually in Bolivar due to human activities. The new conservation area promises to reverse that. Through implementing #restoration initiatives, providing #economic alternatives to local people, and identifying key conservation areas, the province of Bolivar is setting its sights on a brighter future. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ekvJFgDm

O Dia Nacional de Proteção às Florestas, 17 de julho, é um momento de refletir, apoiar e amplificar exemplos de mobilização entre governos, sociedade e o terceiro setor que buscam conservar as matas brasileiras e a nossa diversidade biológica e cultural. Conheça o projeto para criação da Unidade de Conservação (UC) com foco em árvores gigantes na Amazônia. A iniciativa de conservação é liderada pelo Governo do Estado do Pará, por meio do Instituto de Desenvolvimento Florestal e da Biodiversidade.  O projeto conta com a parceria do Instituto Federal do Amapá - IFAP, Fundação Amazônia Sustentável e financiamento do Andes Amazon Fund. 📹🌎💚 Assista, compartilhe o vídeo e siga nossos perfis para saber mais os planos de conservação de árvores gigantes na Amazônia! #DiaDeProteçãoÀsFlorestas #ÁrvoresGigantes #Amazônia Imagens: Fernando Sette

#Convocatoria para los/las líderes futuros de la Amazonía! https://lnkd.in/dEZSHsrm Wildlife Conservation Network