Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Close-up of miner with white beard wearing brown helmet looking slightly to his right. — Miner trained to apply best mining practices, Rayo Rojo cooperative, Bolivia.

© Omar Torrico-WCS

Building a Regional Strategy to Integrate Environmental and Social Safeguards into Mining Practices in the Tropical Andes Hotspot

Grantee Name: Wildlife Conservation Society

Hotspot: Tropical Andes
Location: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Amount: $186,792
Dates: Jun 2019 – Oct 2020
Keywords: Awareness, Biodiversity mainstreaming, Extractive industries, Networks, Policy/law

Develop baseline assessments and strategies dedicated to reducing the impact of mining in the CEPF priority Key Biodiversity Areas and conservation corridors of the Tropical Andes Hotspot. This grant will create an alliance of 60 stakeholders to generate baseline information on the state of mining in the hotspot, develop consensus-based country and regional mitigation strategies, raise awareness of the findings, and leverage future resources for implementation.

Strategic Direction :

3 Promote local stakeholder engagement and the integration of social and environmental safeguards into infrastructure, mining and agriculture projects to mitigate potential threats to the KBAs in the seven priority corrido

Project Resources:

Building a Regional Strategy to Integrate Environmental and Social Safeguards into Mining Practices in the Tropical Andes Hotspot

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