Andes Amazon Fund

The Andes Amazon Fund is a multi-donor initiative to conserve habitat and biodiversity in the Andean and Amazonian countries of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana and western Brazil. Over the first 6-year period they will invest US$50 million in supporting the creation, management and long-term financing of a wide variety of protected areas ranging from indigenous reserves, conservation concessions, regional protected areas and national protected areas. Their target is 10 million hectares of habitat with improved prospects for permanent conservation. They fund civil society organizations with philanthropic grants and often partner with government organizations to co-finance projects.

Projects:

Connecting biodiverse habitats in Peru's Amazon

Protecting centuries-old forests in Bolivia

Conserving native bee habitats in Ecuador

Protecting wildlife and water across 73,000 hectares in Ecuador

Conserving 50,000 hectares of biodiverse forest in Peru

Preserving cloud forests and puna grasslands in the Bolivian Andes

Sierra del Divisor National Park

Protecting 60,000 hectares of rainforest in Ecuador

Safeguarding the livelihoods of 91,000 Ecuadorians through conservation

Preserving a 41,000-hectare biodiversity hotspot in Ecuador

Protecting biodiversity in Colombia's largest national park

Protecting 1.5 million hectares of watersheds in Bolivia

Connecting the Amazon and Chiquitano dry forests in Bolivia

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