The newly established Río Chilenas and Ciudad Roma Municipal Protected Areas safeguard over 300,000 acres of fragile high-altitude wetlands, grasslands, and forests within Bolivia’s iconic Lípez mountain range located in the southern department of Potosí.
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.
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.
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.
The area spans Orinoquian ecosystems alongside the Guaviare River including subtropical forest, savannahs, and important bodies of water such as the Veradal Lake.
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.
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.
On August 12, 2025, the new San Pedro de Chonta Regional Conservation Area (RCA) was officially established in Peru’s Huánuco department, spanning 128,218 acres (51,888 hectares). The area, established by supreme decree, safeguards three priority ecoregions: Peruvian Yungas, Páramos, and Marañón Dry Forests.
From May 29th to June 1st 2025, in the towns of Cotacachi and Intag in the northern Ecuadorian Andes, various conservation stakeholders from across Ecuador participated in a workshop focused on Conservation and Sustainable Use Areas (ACUS), a subnational conservation figure in Ecuador administered at the provincial and municipal level.