Mar 2021 The Amazon rainforest is home one in ten known species in the world! With such high levels of biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest provides immense ecological and economic value to communities that depend upon these natural resources. On World Wildlife Day 2021, the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes program is celebrating the diversity of the Amazon’s forest and wildlife. See our infographic | Ver infografía
Feb 16 – ASL Webinar: Free flowing rivers in the Amazon region
Feb 2021 Healthy rivers support freshwater fish stocks that improve food security for hundreds of millions of people, deliver sediment that keeps deltas above rising seas, mitigate the impact of extreme floods and droughts, prevent loss of infrastructure and fields to erosion, and support a wealth of biodiversity. New research in the Amazon shows 16 of the region’s 26 very long rivers currently remain free flowing, while planned dams would further reduce that number to 9. The webinar will present the results of the global and Amazon Basin assessments, opening a discussion of the global, regional, and national benefits of free flowing rivers, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of disrupting rivers’ connectivity, and recommendations for multisectoral planning and river protection approaches that align with development goals. Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
Feb 4 – Webinar: Putumayo–Içá – Towards the integrated management of the basin and its resources
Feb 2021 The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, the Ministry of Environment and Water of Ecuador, the Ministry of the Environment of Peru, the Secretary of the State of Amazonas and WCS, together with PID Amazonia invite you to this webinar. Watch the recording
Free online courses on Protected Area Management
Jan 2021 The MOOC Conservation offers a series of free online training courses on Protected Area Management. All trainings are developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and its Program on African Protected Areas and Conservation and partners. Learning opportunities include ecological monitoring, species conservation, new technologies for Protected Areas and many more. Visit mooc-conservation.org for more information
ASL Newsletter December 2020
Dec 2020 Get the latest newsletter of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program with a recap of the ASL Annual Conference, a report of community engagement and conservation agreements in Colombia, and the handover of ASL’s program coordintation from Adriana Moreira to Ana María González Velosa. It has been a truly challenging year, but has also shown our ability to adapt and our resilience.
Read the newsletter English | Español | Português
Community engagement and conservation agreements in the heart of the Colombian Amazon
Dec 2020 The Heart of the Amazon project, part of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) Program, funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and implemented between the Ministry of Environment, SINCHI Research Institute, National Natural Parks of Colombia, IDEAM, Corpoamazonia, CDA, Natural Heritage Fund, and with the World Bank support, is working to strengthen institutional and community forest governance, conserve forests and promote sustainable management in the Amazon.
Read more English | Español
Nov 17 – ASL Webinar: Valuing Nature Conservation – Quantifying the benefits of protecting the planet's natural capital
Nov 2020 Much of the global economy depends on natural capital. Acting as the planet's balance sheet, natural capital provides critical services and resilience. It supports water cycles and soil formation while protecting our communities from major storms, floods, fires, and desertification. By absorbing CO2, it limits the pace of climate change. This webinar will focus on the results of the latest McKinsey and Company report "Valuing Nature Conservation: A methodology for quantifying the benefits of protecting the planet's natural capital". Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
Starting Nov 16 – Virtual Knowledge Exchange:
Greentech – Mainstreaming Technologies in Green, Blue, and Clean Operations
Nov 2020 Effectively addressing environmental challenges relating to pollution and sustainable natural resource management under a changing climate is central for sustainable development. This learning opportunity by the Bank’s Open Learning Campus (OLC) and the Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy Global Practice includes live sessions as well as self-paced learning elements. Learn more
Watch the new ASL Video – Promoting sustainable land and water use in the Amazon
Oct 2020 The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) is expanding and will cover seven countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana and Suriname. Watch the video English | Español | Português
Webinar Oct 30: Forests, jungles, and gender – Roles of women in its management and handling
Oct 2020 What are the greatest challenges that women especially have, in the field of forestry policies, plans and projects and in forest management in Colombia? A space for reflection on the effective participation of women and their incidence in decision-making processes, in the management and handling of forests and jungles. The webinar will be in Spanish. Read more
Participate in the C4D Feedback Survey
Oct 2020 Please help us improve our knowledge platform Collaboration for Development and share your thoughts in the C4D Feedback Survey. It only takes about 5 minutes ... Participate now
Oct 13: Webinar – The Indigenous Territorial Governance Training Program
Oct 2020 WWF and Forest Trends invite you to a webinar on the progress and lessons from the Indigenous Territorial Governance Training Program (PFGTI), which has been developed for several years in alliance with numerous indigenous, academic, Forest Trends and WWF organizations in communities and territories of Brazil. (Rondonia), Colombia (Putumayo), Ecuador (Pastaza and Napo) and Peru (Ucayali, Central Selva and Loreto). The webinar will be in Spanish. Read more and register
Webinar Oct 7: Governance in times of pandemic
Oct 2020 The ASL program in collaboration with PID Amazonía invites to a session on the contributions of the ASL program to the situation of indigenous peoples, peasant communities, local producers and managers of protected areas of the Amazon in the context of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, from the different experiences of the projects in Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The webinar will be in Spanish with Portuguese interpretation. Read more
Oct 6–8, 2020: Sustainable Finance for Conservation – First REDLAC & Café Virtual Congress
Sep 2020 RedLAC and CAFÉ are regional networks that group 43 environmental funds from 30 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, as well as 3 regional funds. Register to engage with a global community of conservation finance practitioners, including environmental funds, donors, impact investors, NGOs, the private sector, and government authorities. Read more
Aug 27: Forever Costa Rica Association – 10 Years Sowing the Seeds for the Future of Conservation
Aug 2020 Forever Costa Rica Association (FCRA) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This is a very special celebration and an opportunity to account for all of the impact and successes they have reaped over the years. The webinar creates a space where the donors of FCRA can be acknowledged and discussed how their continuous support has been instrumental in improving and scaling the organization. Read more | Watch the recording
Survey on COVID-19, Indigenous peoples, communities and their territories, lands & waters
Aug 2020 The Université de Lausanne, faculty of geosciences and environnement, together with the ICCA Consortium is conducting a survey on community impacts of and responses to COVID-19. It aims at communities and organizations that work with them. The survey is open through Aug 30. Read more English | Français | Español
Opportunity: Five PhD Graduate Student positions on the social-ecological dynamics of fisheries in Amazonia
Aug 2020 Five qualified and motivated candidates are sought to complete PhD studies at Virginia Tech and Indiana University in an interdisciplinary project on the coupled social-ecological dynamics of freshwater fisheries. Funded by NSF, the project is led by four main faculty who will coordinate different aspects of the project. Learn more English | Português
Free online training starts Aug 19 – Enroll now Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains
Aug 2020 Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence, wherein poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Poverty fell sharply. Learn from economists across the World Bank Group, who discuss how GVC impact a range of development issues. Learn more and register
New documents in the ASL Knowledge Repository: GEF – Delivering Tranformational Change and others
Aug 2020 Learn more about the five guiding principles of the GEF 2020 Strategy and get to know projects and programs behind each of the principles. This and other documents have just been added to the ASL Knowledge Repository. Download the GEF 2020 Strategy | Explore the latest documents
Winners of the DGM Photo Contest
Jul 2020 The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and is home to one in ten known species in the world. To help secure biodiversity, we need reliable and up-to-date information to understand the status and trends of wildlife species and prevent major threats. Watch the recording to learn about Wildlife Insights, an innovative technology platform solution build to speed up the processing, identification and analysis of camera trap data to enable data-driven wildlife conservation actions. Read more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Winners of the DGM Photo Contest
Jul 2020 The Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (DGM) held a photo contest entitled “The power of storytelling through the eyes of indigenous peoples and local communities.” Explore the amazing winner photos with stories from Brazil of the Xavante and Xacriabá indigenous people. See all photos
Webinar July 10, 2020: Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development – opportunities and challenges with COVID19
Jul 2020 The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) is holding its next online discussion on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development. Three knowledgeable panelists will discuss the benefits and challenges in a time of COVID19. They will discuss how mainstreaming assures that investments in nature (including recovery efforts) provide essential co-benefits for other sustainable development objectives. Learn more
ASL Newsletter June 2020
Jun 2020 Get the latest newsletter of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program with info on Integrated Watershed Management of the Putumayo-Içá river basin and interviews with Dr. Marcia Chame on how the environment matters to human health as well as Rodrigo Botero García on the future of community forestry in the Amazon.
Read the newsletter English | Español | Português
Webinar on Sustainable financing of protected areas – Public-private partnerships, the experience of Forever Costa Rica
Jun 2020 Forever Costa Rica Association (FCR), a private independent conservation trust fund created in 2010, works in partnership with the Government’s National Service of Conservation Areas (SINAC) to finance and implement the country’s biodiversity conservation efforts and PA system. FCR will present its 10+ years’ experience pursuing the conservation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the evolution of its alliances with the private sector and civil society. Read more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Why the environment matters to human health
Jun 2020 Deforestation and degradation of forests increase our exposure to animal pathogens and enables zoonotic spillovers. To prevent the emergence of zoonotic diseases, the relationship between humans and nature needs to fundamentally change from being consumers to being interdependent. The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) team spoke with Dr. Marcia Chame, coordinator for the Wildlife Health Information Center (Centro de Informação em Saúde Silvestre–CISS) within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, about zoonoses and solutions for the future.
Read more English | Español | Português
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez named new CEO of Global Environment Facility
Jun 2020 Costa Rican Environment and Energy Minister Carlos Manuel Rodriguez has been selected as the next CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, the largest multilateral trust fund supporting environmental action in developing countries and the main financing mechanism for multiple United Nations environmental conventions. Read more English | Español
ASL Program Overview Executive Summary
May 2020 The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) was designed to bring together three countries – Brazil, Colombia and Peru – with the objective of protecting globally significant biodiversity and implementing policies to foster sustainable land use and the restoration of native vegetation cover. Download the Executive Summary English | Español | Português
Guardian of the Amazon
May 2020 Empowered indigenous women and farmers (campesinas) from different regions of the Colombian Amazon came together to share their experiences and lessons on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable production. Read more English | Español
Webinar: Sustainable financing of protected areas – Earmarking funds from carbon taxes, Colombia
May 2020 Protected Area systems (PA) are globally considered as one of the most effective approaches for conservation and to tackle climate change, but they are facing ever increasing threats and chronic lack of critically needed financial resources. This webinar focused on the Colombian carbon tax as an economic tool to encourage national greenhouse gas mitigation goals. It showcased the negotiation and design process that led to these funds being earmarked and the resulting impact it has had on PA management and conservation. Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Webinar: Sustainable Tourism in the Post COVID-19 Era
May 2020 The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC) conducted a webinar on Sustainable Tourism in the Post COVID-19 Era. This webinar analyzed the changes that the tourism sector is experiencing and the opportunities that are arising for the development of sustainable tourism. Watch the recording (Español)
Webinar: Roads in the Amazon
A better network for people and the environment
May 2020 The rapidly expanding network of roads in the Amazon is permanently altering the world’s largest tropical rainforest. The webinar discussed the expected environmental, social and economic impacts of 75 road projects, totaling 12000 kilometers of planned roads in the Amazon region. It was based on a study by the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) which contributes to informed decision-making by quantifying the environmental, social and economic effects of the planned projects. Learn more | Presentation English | Presentation Español | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Webinar: Conservation and local community development in the Great Bear Rainforest
Apr 2020 This was the first of three webinars hosted by the ASL Working Group on Sustainable Finance. Brodie Guy, Executive Director of the Cost Funds, shared the innovative approaches and experience gained over 10 years of supporting First Nations community businesses, economic development and conservation management in one of the largest remaining temperate rainforests and highlighted lessons that could inspire similar approaches for Protected Areas around the world. Learn more | Download presentation | Watch the recording
Apr 2020 This publication by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides an overview of the Amazon Sustainable Landscape Program's second phase (ASL-2), which builds upon ASL-1 to strengthen integrated landscape management and conservation of ecosystems in the Amazon region. Download the publication
Webinar: Technology Meets Policy in the Amazon
Mar 2020 Our recent webinar featured MAAP, an initiative of Amazon Conservation (ACCA), that specializes in satellite-based, real-time deforestation monitoring of the Amazon as well as their recent 2019 synthesis report on Amazon Deforestation Trends and Hotspots. Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
The dream of community forestry in the Amazon – An interview with Rodrigo Botero García
Mar 2020 Community forest management is an approach that supports communities through various co-management and community-based regimes to use, manage, and conserve forests. Learn more in our interview with Rodrigo Botero García, a recent recipient of “The Best Leaders of Colombia” award (Mejores Líderes de Colombia) for his work preventing deforestation in the Amazon, fostering community-led sustainable development and promoting the expansion of Chiribiquete, now the largest tropical rainforest national park in the world. Read the interview English | Español | Português
ASL Newsletter February 2020
Feb 2020 Read the latest newsletter with the newly released ASL Progress Report and more on our online Community of Practice. English | Español | Português
Comparative Analysis of Conservation Agreement Programs in the Amazon
Jan 2020 The analysis identifies CA program characteristics that deliver effectiveness, assesses how they are applied in the Amazon region and provides further recommendations. Read the report
DGM Photo Contest
Jan 2020 The Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (DGM) is holding a photo contest entitled “The power of storytelling through the eyes of indigenous peoples and local communities.” Share your photographs of DGM projects and forest conservation activities in your community and win cash prizes. Deadline: February 29, 2020
Learn more English | Español | Português
ASL Newsletter December 2019
Read more about some key events of 2019 for ASL in our newsletter. English | Español | Português
Amazonia: Working Together for the Forest, Life and Peace – Challenges and Lessons Learned from the Forestry Community Selva Maya
Amazon's Indigenous Languages Hold the Key to its Conservation
Aug 2019 An interview with with Martin von Hildebrand on how Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge contributes to biodiversity and enables the Amazon conservation.
Read more English | Español | Português
Why the Amazon's Biodiversity is Critical for the Globe
May 2019 Amazon expert and leading ecologist Thomas Lovejoy discusses threats to the Amazon, how best to manage them, and the importance of ASL Program.
Read more English | Español | Português
When the Forest Protection and Economic Grow Hand in Hand
Sep 2018 The Amazon forest landscape does more than give vital resources to the 33 million people that live in it. It sequesters 70bn tons of carbon, benefiting everyone.
Read more English | Español | Português
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Mar 2021 The Amazon rainforest is home one in ten known species in the world! With such high levels of biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest provides immense ecological and economic value to communities that depend upon these natural resources. On World Wildlife Day 2021, the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes program is celebrating the diversity of the Amazon’s forest and wildlife. See our infographic | Ver infografía
Feb 2021 Healthy rivers support freshwater fish stocks that improve food security for hundreds of millions of people, deliver sediment that keeps deltas above rising seas, mitigate the impact of extreme floods and droughts, prevent loss of infrastructure and fields to erosion, and support a wealth of biodiversity. New research in the Amazon shows 16 of the region’s 26 very long rivers currently remain free flowing, while planned dams would further reduce that number to 9. The webinar will present the results of the global and Amazon Basin assessments, opening a discussion of the global, regional, and national benefits of free flowing rivers, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of disrupting rivers’ connectivity, and recommendations for multisectoral planning and river protection approaches that align with development goals. Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
Feb 2021 The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, the Ministry of Environment and Water of Ecuador, the Ministry of the Environment of Peru, the Secretary of the State of Amazonas and WCS, together with PID Amazonia invite you to this webinar. Watch the recording
Jan 2021 The MOOC Conservation offers a series of free online training courses on Protected Area Management. All trainings are developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and its Program on African Protected Areas and Conservation and partners. Learning opportunities include ecological monitoring, species conservation, new technologies for Protected Areas and many more. Visit mooc-conservation.org for more information
Dec 2020 Get the latest newsletter of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program with a recap of the ASL Annual Conference, a report of community engagement and conservation agreements in Colombia, and the handover of ASL’s program coordintation from Adriana Moreira to Ana María González Velosa. It has been a truly challenging year, but has also shown our ability to adapt and our resilience.
Read the newsletter English | Español | Português
Dec 2020 The Heart of the Amazon project, part of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) Program, funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and implemented between the Ministry of Environment, SINCHI Research Institute, National Natural Parks of Colombia, IDEAM, Corpoamazonia, CDA, Natural Heritage Fund, and with the World Bank support, is working to strengthen institutional and community forest governance, conserve forests and promote sustainable management in the Amazon.
Read more English | Español
Nov 2020 Much of the global economy depends on natural capital. Acting as the planet's balance sheet, natural capital provides critical services and resilience. It supports water cycles and soil formation while protecting our communities from major storms, floods, fires, and desertification. By absorbing CO2, it limits the pace of climate change. This webinar will focus on the results of the latest McKinsey and Company report "Valuing Nature Conservation: A methodology for quantifying the benefits of protecting the planet's natural capital".
Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
Greentech – Mainstreaming Technologies in Green, Blue, and Clean Operations
Nov 2020 Effectively addressing environmental challenges relating to pollution and sustainable natural resource management under a changing climate is central for sustainable development. This learning opportunity by the Bank’s Open Learning Campus (OLC) and the Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy Global Practice includes live sessions as well as self-paced learning elements. Learn more
Oct 2020 The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) is expanding and will cover seven countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana and Suriname. Watch the video English | Español | Português
Oct 2020 What are the greatest challenges that women especially have, in the field of forestry policies, plans and projects and in forest management in Colombia? A space for reflection on the effective participation of women and their incidence in decision-making processes, in the management and handling of forests and jungles. The webinar will be in Spanish. Read more
Oct 2020 Please help us improve our knowledge platform Collaboration for Development and share your thoughts in the C4D Feedback Survey. It only takes about 5 minutes ... Participate now
Oct 2020 WWF and Forest Trends invite you to a webinar on the progress and lessons from the Indigenous Territorial Governance Training Program (PFGTI), which has been developed for several years in alliance with numerous indigenous, academic, Forest Trends and WWF organizations in communities and territories of Brazil. (Rondonia), Colombia (Putumayo), Ecuador (Pastaza and Napo) and Peru (Ucayali, Central Selva and Loreto). The webinar will be in Spanish. Read more and register
Oct 2020 The ASL program in collaboration with PID Amazonía invites to a session on the contributions of the ASL program to the situation of indigenous peoples, peasant communities, local producers and managers of protected areas of the Amazon in the context of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, from the different experiences of the projects in Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The webinar will be in Spanish with Portuguese interpretation. Read more
Sep 2020 RedLAC and CAFÉ are regional networks that group 43 environmental funds from 30 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, as well as 3 regional funds. Register to engage with a global community of conservation finance practitioners, including environmental funds, donors, impact investors, NGOs, the private sector, and government authorities. Read more
Aug 2020 Forever Costa Rica Association (FCRA) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This is a very special celebration and an opportunity to account for all of the impact and successes they have reaped over the years. The webinar creates a space where the donors of FCRA can be acknowledged and discussed how their continuous support has been instrumental in improving and scaling the organization. Read more | Watch the recording
Aug 2020 The Université de Lausanne, faculty of geosciences and environnement, together with the ICCA Consortium is conducting a survey on community impacts of and responses to COVID-19. It aims at communities and organizations that work with them. The survey is open through Aug 30. Read more English | Français | Español
Aug 2020 Five qualified and motivated candidates are sought to complete PhD studies at Virginia Tech and Indiana University in an interdisciplinary project on the coupled social-ecological dynamics of freshwater fisheries. Funded by NSF, the project is led by four main faculty who will coordinate different aspects of the project. Learn more English | Português
Aug 2020 Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence, wherein poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Poverty fell sharply. Learn from economists across the World Bank Group, who discuss how GVC impact a range of development issues. Learn more and register
Aug 2020 Learn more about the five guiding principles of the GEF 2020 Strategy and get to know projects and programs behind each of the principles. This and other documents have just been added to the ASL Knowledge Repository. Download the GEF 2020 Strategy | Explore the latest documents
Jul 2020 The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and is home to one in ten known species in the world. To help secure biodiversity, we need reliable and up-to-date information to understand the status and trends of wildlife species and prevent major threats. Watch the recording to learn about Wildlife Insights, an innovative technology platform solution build to speed up the processing, identification and analysis of camera trap data to enable data-driven wildlife conservation actions.
Read more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Jul 2020 The Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (DGM) held a photo contest entitled “The power of storytelling through the eyes of indigenous peoples and local communities.” Explore the amazing winner photos with stories from Brazil of the Xavante and Xacriabá indigenous people. See all photos
Jul 2020 The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) is holding its next online discussion on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development. Three knowledgeable panelists will discuss the benefits and challenges in a time of COVID19. They will discuss how mainstreaming assures that investments in nature (including recovery efforts) provide essential co-benefits for other sustainable development objectives. Learn more
Jun 2020 Get the latest newsletter of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program with info on Integrated Watershed Management of the Putumayo-Içá river basin and interviews with Dr. Marcia Chame on how the environment matters to human health as well as Rodrigo Botero García on the future of community forestry in the Amazon.
Read the newsletter English | Español | Português
Jun 2020 Forever Costa Rica Association (FCR), a private independent conservation trust fund created in 2010, works in partnership with the Government’s National Service of Conservation Areas (SINAC) to finance and implement the country’s biodiversity conservation efforts and PA system. FCR will present its 10+ years’ experience pursuing the conservation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the evolution of its alliances with the private sector and civil society.
Read more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Jun 2020 Deforestation and degradation of forests increase our exposure to animal pathogens and enables zoonotic spillovers. To prevent the emergence of zoonotic diseases, the relationship between humans and nature needs to fundamentally change from being consumers to being interdependent. The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) team spoke with Dr. Marcia Chame, coordinator for the Wildlife Health Information Center (Centro de Informação em Saúde Silvestre–CISS) within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, about zoonoses and solutions for the future.
Read more English | Español | Português
Jun 2020 Costa Rican Environment and Energy Minister Carlos Manuel Rodriguez has been selected as the next CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, the largest multilateral trust fund supporting environmental action in developing countries and the main financing mechanism for multiple United Nations environmental conventions. Read more English | Español
May 2020 The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) was designed to bring together three countries – Brazil, Colombia and Peru – with the objective of protecting globally significant biodiversity and implementing policies to foster sustainable land use and the restoration of native vegetation cover. Download the Executive Summary English | Español | Português
May 2020 Empowered indigenous women and farmers (campesinas) from different regions of the Colombian Amazon came together to share their experiences and lessons on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable production. Read more English | Español
May 2020 Protected Area systems (PA) are globally considered as one of the most effective approaches for conservation and to tackle climate change, but they are facing ever increasing threats and chronic lack of critically needed financial resources. This webinar focused on the Colombian carbon tax as an economic tool to encourage national greenhouse gas mitigation goals. It showcased the negotiation and design process that led to these funds being earmarked and the resulting impact it has had on PA management and conservation.
Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
May 2020 The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC) conducted a webinar on Sustainable Tourism in the Post COVID-19 Era. This webinar analyzed the changes that the tourism sector is experiencing and the opportunities that are arising for the development of sustainable tourism. Watch the recording (Español)
A better network for people and the environment
May 2020 The rapidly expanding network of roads in the Amazon is permanently altering the world’s largest tropical rainforest. The webinar discussed the expected environmental, social and economic impacts of 75 road projects, totaling 12000 kilometers of planned roads in the Amazon region. It was based on a study by the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) which contributes to informed decision-making by quantifying the environmental, social and economic effects of the planned projects.
Learn more | Presentation English | Presentation Español | Watch the recording | See all ASL webinars
Apr 2020 This was the first of three webinars hosted by the ASL Working Group on Sustainable Finance. Brodie Guy, Executive Director of the Cost Funds, shared the innovative approaches and experience gained over 10 years of supporting First Nations community businesses, economic development and conservation management in one of the largest remaining temperate rainforests and highlighted lessons that could inspire similar approaches for Protected Areas around the world.
Learn more | Download presentation | Watch the recording
Apr 2020 This publication by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides an overview of the Amazon Sustainable Landscape Program's second phase (ASL-2), which builds upon ASL-1 to strengthen integrated landscape management and conservation of ecosystems in the Amazon region. Download the publication
Mar 2020 Our recent webinar featured MAAP, an initiative of Amazon Conservation (ACCA), that specializes in satellite-based, real-time deforestation monitoring of the Amazon as well as their recent 2019 synthesis report on Amazon Deforestation Trends and Hotspots.
Learn more | Download the presentation | Watch the recording
Mar 2020 Community forest management is an approach that supports communities through various co-management and community-based regimes to use, manage, and conserve forests. Learn more in our interview with Rodrigo Botero García, a recent recipient of “The Best Leaders of Colombia” award (Mejores Líderes de Colombia) for his work preventing deforestation in the Amazon, fostering community-led sustainable development and promoting the expansion of Chiribiquete, now the largest tropical rainforest national park in the world. Read the interview English | Español | Português
Feb 2020 Read the latest newsletter with the newly released ASL Progress Report and more on our online Community of Practice.
English | Español | Português
Jan 2020 The analysis identifies CA program characteristics that deliver effectiveness, assesses how they are applied in the Amazon region and provides further recommendations. Read the report
Jan 2020 The Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (DGM) is holding a photo contest entitled “The power of storytelling through the eyes of indigenous peoples and local communities.” Share your photographs of DGM projects and forest conservation activities in your community and win cash prizes. Deadline: February 29, 2020
Learn more English | Español | Português
Read more about some key events of 2019 for ASL in our newsletter.
English | Español | Português
Dec 2019 In July delegations from Brazil, Colombia and Peru conducted an exchange of experiences on community forestry in the area of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR). The learning of this model was proposed as a mechanism to strengthen the Sustainable Forest Management exercises that are developed in the Amazon region.
Download the report on challenges and lessons learned (Spanish)
Watch the video on Community Forestry – Learning from Petén (in Spanish with English subtitles)
Aug 2019 An interview with with Martin von Hildebrand on how Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge contributes to biodiversity and enables the Amazon conservation.
Read more English | Español | Português
May 2019 Amazon expert and leading ecologist Thomas Lovejoy discusses threats to the Amazon, how best to manage them, and the importance of ASL Program.
Read more English | Español | Português
Sep 2018 The Amazon forest landscape does more than give vital resources to the 33 million people that live in it. It sequesters 70bn tons of carbon, benefiting everyone.
Read more English | Español | Português