Grant Name:

Building a Large-Scale Biodiversity Conservation Network in the State of Amazonas

  • Date Awarded:
    May 2008
     
  • Amount:
    $1,997,960
     
  • Term:
    32 months
     
  • Grant ID:
    GBMF647.01
     
  • Funding Area:
    Environmental Conservation
     
 
 

In support of the State of Amazonas' Environment and Sustainable Development Agency's plans to increase and improve the state's existing protected area system, and increase the capacity to carry out such a program. This effort includes creation of at least 10 new protected areas, totaling no less than 1.2 million hectares (five of them within a frontier zone); effective management of 10 new and 5 existing protected areas amounting to 10.6 million hectares; and develop sustainable policies and test their effectiveness in order to support the Amazonas State protected area system.

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