Fostering Community Development and Biodiversity Conservation in Yunguilla Cloud Forest, Ecuador
Grantee Name: Corporacion Microempresarial Yunguilla
- Hotspot
- Tropical Andes
- Location
- Ecuador
- Amount
- $199,987
- Dates
- Dec 2023 – Jun 2025
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Agroforestry, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Habitat conservation and management, Land tenure, Livelihoods, Private sector, Protected Areas, Tourism, Employment
Support community-based conservation and sustainable development in 8,000 hectares of cloud forest by strengthening land tenure, expanding formal protection to new forests, strengthening protected areas management, strengthening ecotourism development and sustainable agriculture, and funding organizational strengthening and fund raising.
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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