Improving indigenous Bolivian Chiquitano people’s livelihoods through sustainable forest management
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £320,201
WHERE Brazil, Bolivia
Summary
This project will help to protect the Bolivian Chiquitano ecoregion The globally unique Bolivian Chiquitano ecoregion is under increasing pressure from expanding soybean agriculture, cattle ranging, logging, and subsistence farming. This project will enable the government of Santa Cruz (an autonomous department) to implement an effective conservation strategy by:
1) providing diversification options for livelihoods in sustainable forest management,
2) engaging key stakeholders (indigenous forest communities, soybean farmers, and cattle rangers),
3) building capacity for assessing IUCN extinct risk, and
4) implementing Important Plant Area (IPA) criteria in Chiquitano forest conservation
Plantlife International, Museo de Historia Natural Natural Noel Kempff Mercado (MHNNKM), Fundación de Amigos para la Naturaleza (FAN), Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University in Santa Cruz (UAGRM), Central of Chiquitanas Indigenous Communities – Turubó, Activa
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