Established on February 24, 2026, the area—which is the largest protected area in Caldas—plays a fundamental role in the regulation and provision of water for 5 municipalities.
The new Bosques Montanos de Huamantanga y Chorro Blanco Regional Conservation Area (RCA), established on March 14, 2026, protects 34,650 acres of cloud forest and Amazonian headwaters in the northern Peruvian department of Cajamarca.
An additional 257,531 acres (104,219 hectares) of the Brazilian Pantanal – the world’s largest tropical wetland — are now protected with the March 2026 expansion of the Pantanal Mato-Grossense National Park and the Taiamã Ecological Station.
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.
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.
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 newly protected area is home to an estimated 1,267 wildlife species, including 13 endemic species found nowhere else but Bolivia.