People Acting for Bolivian Amazon (PABA)

Project period:

01.08.2022 - 31.03.2024

Granted amount:

500,000,- DKK

Total budget:

500,000,- DKK

Organization:

Aktion Amazonas

Partners:

ONG-Asociacion Boliviana para la Investigación y Conservación de Ecosistemas Andino Amazónicos

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Medborgerindsats

World goals:

Goal 1: No Poverty

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Goal 13: Climate Action

Goal 15: Life on Land

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Efforts take place in:

Bolivia

Resume

The growing degradation of the Amazon – especially due to expansion of agriculture activities, mining and exploitation of timber products threatens the world's largest tropical rainforest ecosystem and people whose livelihoods are closely linked to the forest and the forest's resources. The project supports five communities in their joint efforts to protect community forest in the Amazon with the impact objective to: Prevent deforestation or degradation of the forest area ANMIB Porvenir and secure regional ecological connectivity for the benefit of people, climate, and biodiversity. The long-term goal of strengthening the ecological connectivity is to fight fragmentation, strengthen biodiversity, ensuring species can move between protected areas and maintain genetic strength for the benefit of forest and ecosystem services. In addition, cohesive areas under coordinated protection will make a common front against the mining industry posing a major threat to the environment.