Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Fostering Participatory Protected Area Management in Alrededores de Amaluza, Ecuador

Grantee Name: Fundación Ecológica Rikcharina

Hotspot: Tropical Andes
Location: Ecuador
Amount: $190,320
Dates: Jun 2024 – Dec 2025
Keywords: Agroforestry, Awareness, Buffer zones, Climate adaptation, Community-based conservation, Habitat conservation and management, Protected Areas, Restoration, Species Conservation, Governance

Strengthen community participation in the management of Rio Negro Sopladora National Park and Tinajillas Río Gualaceño Municipal Protected Area. Establish stakeholder management committees, strengthen cultural and eco-tourism, develop an amphibian conservation action plan, raise community awareness, and sign conservation agreements to support agroforestry in buffer zone communities.

Strategic Direction :

1 Strengthen protection and management of 52 priority KBAs to foster participatory governance, green recovery from COVID-19, climate change resilience, species conservation, and financial sustainability.

Fostering Participatory Protected Area Management in Alrededores de Amaluza, Ecuador

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