Amazon

WWF projects in the Amazon

New or updated projects

Modified: Apr 2008 - Started: Jul 1998

Amazon Sustainable Development: Acre-Purus and Itenez-Mamore Conservation Blocks and Lessons Learned

The project aims to develop an ecoregion conservation strategy for the Brazilian Amazon. It will operate at various levels, including local projects f... » Read more

Modified: Apr 2008 - Started: Feb 2007

Implementation of National Forests: Solving Land Tenure Problems, Avoiding Forest Degradation

The Brazilian society does not have sufficient information to be able to demand from the government drastic measures for the conservation of forest re... » Read more

Modified: Apr 2008 - Started: Apr 2006

Programme on Protected Areas and Support to ARPA

WWF Brazil's main mission on its Programme on Protected Areas and Support to ARPA is to accompany and support the execution of the Amazon Region Prote... » Read more

Modified: Mar 2008 - Started: Jul 2007

Amazon Keystone Initiative

The Amazon Keystone Initiative (AKI) contributes to WWF Brazil's vision for the Amazon. It also aims to structure WWF Brazil through Italian support i... » Read more

Modified: Feb 2008 - Started: Aug 2007

Forest for Life

Forest ecosystems are home to the highest levels of biodiversity in Colombia. They are essential to sustainable development for the essential goods an... » Read more

Modified: Aug 2007 - Started: Apr 1998

Conservation of Guianas Forests

The Guianas Forests and Environmental Conservation Project (GFECP) focuses on the conservation of the Guayanan Forest Ecoregion. Its primary targets a... » Read more

Modified: Apr 2008 - Started: Aug 1997

Management of Floodplain Natural Resources

The Ecoregion Strategy for Floodplain Natural Resources Management (ERABI) project will bring together the considerable body of work which has been ge... » Read more

Modified: Jan 2008 - Started: Jul 1998

Freshwater Conservation

WWF Peru's main goal is the long-term conservation, protection and sustainable management of the Abanico del Pastaza and Pacaya Samiria areas with the... » Read more

Modified: Oct 2007 - Started: Jul 1999

Forest Conservation

Forests provide essential environmental, social and economic functions, but alarming deforestation rates in the last 3 decades have caused at least ha... » Read more

Biodiversity Conservation through Policies in Support of Protected Areas

Modified: Sep 2007 - Started: Jan 2005

Sustainability for Community Forest Holders

The project aims to promote capacity building for local indigenous communities in the Bolivian Southwest Amazon (SWA) and Chiquitano Dry Forest (CDF).... » Read more

Modified: Oct 2006 - Started: Jul 1999

Conservation of the Bolivian Amazon (Southwest Amazon Ecoregion)

The Southwest Amazon ecoregion in Bolivia includes humid tropical ecosystems found in the Northern most department of Pando as well as Northern sectio... » Read more