Creating Community Governed Forest Corridor

Project period:

01.10.2022 - 30.03.2024

Granted amount:

500,000,- DKK

Total budget:

500,000,- DKK

Organization:

Aktion Amazonas

Partners:

Fundación para la Conservación del Bosque Chiquitano

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Medborgerindsats

World goals:

Goal 1: No Poverty

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Goal 13: Climate Action

Goal 15: Life on Land

Efforts take place in:

Bolivia

Resume

The impact objective of the project is to reduce deforestation by creating a community governed forest corridor, enhancing sustainability and climate change resilience of local livelihoods, and contributing to landscape connectivity and CC mitigation. We call it the San Rafael Corridor - a landscape corridor connecting almost 1.300 km2 of forest and nature. The project focus on sustainably conserving three community forests in the municipality of San Rafael in the southern part of the province of San Ignacio de Velasco in the department of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia through popular anchored forest protection and management while strengthening a civilian organization around the management and protection of the municipality governed forest area Reserva Natural de San Rafael (RNSR) with representation from both the indigenous and rural communities and local authorities.