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Forest Fire Prevention and Restoration in Southern Ecuador

Grantee Name: Fundación Ecológica Arcoiris

Hotspot
Tropical Andes
Location
Ecuador
Amount
$74,377
Dates
Jan 2025 – Nov 2025
Keywords
Agroforestry, Awareness, Buffer zones, Capacity building, Climate adaptation, Communication, Community-based conservation, Fire management, Gender, Protected Areas, Reforestation, Ecosystem resilience, Landscape Resilience

Strengthen the capacity of Podocarpus National Park, Colambo Yacuri Protected Forest and their buffer zone communities to prevent, combat and recover from forest fires. Provide training and fire-fighting equipment to protected area staff and buffer zone communities. Conduct community education and outreach about fire prevention. Reforest 50 hectares of land burnt in 2024.

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.

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