
Capacity Building to Reduce the Impact of Mining in the Polylepis Forests of Apolobamba, Madidi, and Pilon Lajas Protected Areas of Bolivia
Grantee Name: Wildlife Conservation Society
- Hotspot
- Tropical Andes
- Location
- Bolivia
- Amount
- $158,245
- Dates
- Jun 2016 – Dec 2018
- Keywords
- Capacity building, Extractive industries, Indigenous People, Livelihoods, Pollution, Protected Areas, Waste management
Mitigate the environmental impacts of the legal mining that occurs inside three protected areas in Bolivia—Polylepis Forests of Apolobamba, Madidi and Pilon Lajas—by promoting the application of best practices. The project will assess current mining practices in the protected areas, build the technical capacity of miners and park guards to adopt and monitor best practices, support pilot projects for environmentally sustainable mining, and strengthen local management committees to oversee these operations.
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
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