With the recent declarations of the Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Areas in San Ignacio de Velasco and Concepción municipalities, a critical conservation corridor has been strengthened in eastern Bolivia. The…
Covering an area of 56,327 acres, Palora Municipal Conservation and Sustainable Use Area in Ecuador, created on December 16, connects the cloud forests of the eastern Andes to the Amazon…
Andes Amazon Fund celebrates the creation of the Communal Alto Tamaya – Abujao (CATA) Regional Conservation Area in Ucayali, Peru. Established on July 22, the new area protects 370,685 acres…
Protecting Runahurco means securing water for thousands of families while safeguarding one of the most threatened raptors in the Andes-Amazon transition zone.
Amid the cobalt-winged parakeets and spiny walking palms of the Ecuadorian Amazon, 50 participants representing 15 organizations gathered in Napo, Ecuador for Andes Amazon Fund’s third annual Institutional Strengthening workshop.
The Vida Sana del Chocó Conservation Area (which translates to “healthy life to the Chocó”) will directly benefit 44,431 inhabitants who live in or around it, including 11 Afro-Ecuadorian communities, 6 Awa communities, and one Chachi community.
The Nueva York Private Conservation Area spans 8,454 (3,421 hectares) of vital Amazonian flooded forests and palm swamps along the Tigre River in Peru’s Loreto region. The initiative, driven by the Kukama-Kukamiria Indigenous People of the Nueva York Native Community with the technical support of grantee Amazónicos por la Amazonía (AMPA), recognizes the community protection of a portion of the Kukama-Kukamiria Peoples Territory, safeguarding an ecological important area.
Over 200,000 acres of Chaco-Andes transitionary ecosystems in Bolivia’s Department of Chuquisaca are now protected with the establishment of the Serrania de Mandiyurenda Natural Integrated Management Area (Área Natural de Manejo Integrado y Gestión Comunitaria del Agua y Biodiversidad). The area was declared on April 30, 2025, by the Indigenous Guaraní Huacaya Autonomous Government.
After more than 20 years of persistent effort, the organization representing the Tacana II Indigenous Communities of the Madre de Dios River (CITRMD) was officially granted the formal title to their ancestral lands as a Communal Indigenous Territory (TIOC). This important achievement grants collective territorial rights over a biodiverse area spanning 673,065 acres (272,380 hectares) of Amazonian forests in the Department of La Paz in Bolivia, near the border with Peru. The titling process was completed on July 10, 2025, with the formal granting of the land title issued by Bolivia’s National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA). The title for the Tacana II Communal Indigenous Territory, called a TIOC in Bolivia, represents an important win for the territorial rights of the Tacana Indigenous Peoples and Amazonian biodiversity conservation.
On June 11, 2025, the Municipal Government of Chone established the Chone Conservation and Sustainable Use Area in Manabí, Ecuador. The new area in total spans 588,110 acres (238,000 hectares), with 257,817 acres (104,345 hectares) designated as a strategic conservation area. The strategic conservation area includes intact forest and water sources that supply the Chone municipality and support essential ecosystem functions.