Biodiversity conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean

Regional projects

• Demarcation and protection of indigenous areas in Amazonia
• Sustainable management of natural resources in Chaco Sudamericano
• Strengthening of indigenous organizations in Latin America (COICA)
  www.coica.org

Projects in individual Latin American countries

• Bolivia: Management of nature conservation areas and their peripheral zones
  Project brief
• Bolivia: Development of sustainable agriculture
  Programme brief
• Bolivia: Implementation of national regulations for the access to genetic resources
  This program aims to support ministries and their subordinate authorities, as well as non-governmental organisations, in the implementation of rules to govern the access to genetic resources. Responsibility for the project lies with the Direccion General de Biodiversidad, its focus is on biological prospection and the creation of a database on the country's genetic resources and experts.
• Brazil: Protection and sustainable management of the forest and biodiversity in the Amazon region
• Brazil: Natural resources management of the Amazon floodplains
  Project brief
• Brazil: Safeguarding and Processing of data on biodiversity in the herbaria of the Amazon Region
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Brazil: Establishing the nature reserve 'Archipelago de Ilha Grande' at the upper Paraná
  In the context of establishing and protecting the nature reserve Archipélago de Ilha Grande, the project supports environmental protection planning and the promotion of sustainability in several forms of cultivation (e.g. fishery, natural resources, tourism). The project focuses on institution building, land use planning and the setting-up of alternative sources of energy.
• Costa Rica: Sustainable management of natural resources in Acosa
  Programmes and projects in Costa Rica
• Dominican Republic: Management and protection of natural resources in water catchment areas
  Programmkurzbeschreibung
• Ecuador: Sustainable management of natural resources (NAMARES Programm)
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
  www.gtz-proyectopac.org
• Ecuador: MDG Poster NAMARES
• Ecuador: YAWA JEE - Strengthening of indigenous protected tropical forest in Ecuador
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Honduras: Natural resources and economic development program
  Programme brief
• Colombia: Implementing the 'Clearing-House' mechanism in Colombia
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Mexico: Management of natural resources and regional development in the Southeast of Mexico
  Project brief
• Mexico: The Sustainable Use of Endangered Tree-ferns and Palms in Veracruz and Chiapas
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Nicaragua: Sustainable management of natural resources and strengthening of enterpreneurial competencies
  Programmkurzbeschreibung
• Nicaragua: Strengthening the capacity of indigenous decision-makers for the implemention of the CBD in Central America
  Supported by GTZ, the autonomous University URACCAN in Nicaragua developed a training course for indigenous decision-makers on CBD and GEF and developing specific measures for their implementation in local communities. The training course was based on a study on establishing indigenous organisations and their agenda in the national political arenas of Central America.
• Panama: Participative Biomonitoring in the Bay of Panamá as Part of an Intergrative Coastal Zone Mangement
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Paraguay: Sustainable natural resource management
• Peru: Sustainable rural development
  Programme brief
  www.gtz-rural.org.pe
• Peru: Local knowledge of conserving biodiversity from a gender perspective
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Peru: Biodiversity conservation, management and use in the Paracas national coastal reserve
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean
• Venezuela: "El Refugio del Bosque" - A Place for Environmental Education and Communication
  Project Papers: Latin America and Caribbean