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WWF projects in the Amazon

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Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA)

Saving the Amazon

Described by many as the “lungs of the world”, the Amazon rainforest is severely threatened. Uncontrolled logging and development continue to contribu...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Jul 1998

Map of the national forest of Altamira, Para, Brazil.

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

The project seeks to support measures to reduce deforestation in Brazil, in particular through the reduction of illegal logging and timber collection....

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Feb 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...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Jul 2007

Beneficiaries of Papayacu community preparing cacao beans to plant. Peru.

Managing community resources in the Peruvian Amazon

The Peruvian Amazon is home to some of the world’s most spectacular wildlife such as the jaguar, harpy eagle, scarlet macaw, giant river otter and bla...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: May 2006

La Planada nature reserve. Colombia.

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...

Modified: Feb 2008 - Started: Aug 2007

Cascade river in the tropical rainforest 's Nature Reserve of the Nouragues. French Guiana.

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...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Apr 1998

Forest Conservation

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

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jul 1999

Lake Rimachi, the biggest lake of the Amazon, has now a fishing management plan. Peru.

Freshwater conservation in the Peruvian Amazon

The Abanico del Pastaza wetlands and the Pacaya Samiria national reserve in northeastern Peru are extremely rich in biological and cultural diversity....

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jul 1998

Logged Mahogany trees (Swietenia macrophylla) floated by Bolivian loggers on lower Heath river opposite Pampas del Heath nature sanctuary. Bolivia.

Sustainable forestry in the Bolivian Amazon

Bolivia is home to the largest dry tropical forests in the world and has some of the wildest parts of the Amazon; home to pumas, jaguar tapirs, giant ...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jan 2005

A Brazilian nut collector within the SWA forests.

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...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jul 1999

Training Programme for Community Forestry in Bolivia

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