Aprender Juntos Para Conservar Mejor: Una Experiencia que Fortaleció a la Red de Áreas de Conservación Regional

By Andes Amazon Fund | March 30, 2026

Entre finales de Septiembre y mediados de noviembre de 2025 se vivió una experiencia profundamente enriquecedora para la gestión de la conservación en el Perú: la capacitación del personal encargado de las Áreas de Conservación Regional (ACR) en la implementación de tecnologías para el control, la vigilancia y el monitoreo de la biodiversidad.

Learning Together to Improve Conservation: An Experience that Strengthened Peru’s Regional Conservation Area Network

By Andes Amazon Fund | March 30, 2026

Between late September and mid-November 2025, a deeply enriching experience for conservation management in Peru took place: the training of personnel in charge of Regional Conservation Areas (RCA) in the implementation of technologies for the surveillance and monitoring of biodiversity.

Forest Conservation and the New Indigenous Territorial Entities of Colombia

By Peter Oesterling | March 19, 2026

The formalization of the country’s first eight Indigenous Territorial Entities marks a new Indigenous-led land governance model that encompasses 15% of the Colombian Amazon region.

Bolivia’s Palos Blancos Municipality Establishes New Protected Area to Safeguard Endangered Cloud Forest Species

By Andes Amazon Fund | March 5, 2026

The newly protected area is home to an estimated 1,267 wildlife species, including 13 endemic species found nowhere else but Bolivia.

New Gran Paitití de Mapiri Municipal Park and Integrated Natural Management Area Protects Incan Ruins and Improves Connectivity in the Amazon-Andes Transition of La Paz, Bolivia

By Andes Amazon Fund | January 26, 2026

Gran Paitití de Mapiri serves as a connectivity corridor for wildlife moving between the Amazonian lowlands and the Andean highlands, contributing to a broader conservation mosaic that connects some of Bolivia’s most important protected areas, such as Cotapata and Madidi National Parks.

Newly Created Los Palmares de Villa Nueva and Guardián Amazónico Pacahuara Protected Areas Enhance Connectivity of Amazonian Forests in Pando, Bolivia

By Andes Amazon Fund | January 21, 2026

Together these two areas span a combined 1,817,247 acres (735,414 hectares) of intact Amazonian forests and water sources that connect with an extensive conservation mosaic in the Department of Pando. This is a significant step forward for the conservation of the Western Amazon that consolidates key ecological connectivity in the Peru-Bolivia-Brazil transboundary region.

Nueva York Private Conservation Area Granted to Kukama-Kukamiria Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon

By Andes Amazon Fund | November 22, 2025

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. 

Huacaya Guaraní Indigenous Government Establishes Serrania de Mandiyurenda Protected Area in Bolivia’s Chaco-Andes Interface

By Andes Amazon Fund | November 21, 2025

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. 

Tacana II Indigenous Territory Formally Recognized in Bolivian Amazon After Over Two Decades of Effort

By Andes Amazon Fund | October 29, 2025

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.

Forging a New Path for Peru’s Regional Conservation Areas: From Cajamarca to Cusco

By Andes Amazon Fund | October 8, 2025

Peru’s Second National Convention for the Exchange of Experiences Among Regional Conservation Areas, held on August 13-15, 2025 and organized by the Regional Government of Cajamarca, brought together over 200 environmental representatives from Peru’s 26 regional governments who are directly responsible for the promotion, creation, and management of the country’s Regional Conservation Areas.