Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Implementing Colombia's Western Andes Birding Trail: Conservation and Community Development Opportunity

Grantee Name: Asociación para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves Acuáticas en Colombia

Hotspot: Tropical Andes
Location: Colombia
Amount: $107,374
Dates: Jun 2018 – Oct 2020
Keywords: Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Gender, Livelihoods, Networks, Tourism

Implement the Western Andes Birding Trail in conjunction with local stakeholders and government in the Paraguas-Munchique Conservation Corridor (based on a previous planning grant). The project aims to build community capacity-building for bird tourism, establish a bird-watching club, increase awareness, provide site improvements for tourism, create marketing products, and implement socioeconomic impact monitoring.

Strategic Direction : 4 Promote and scale up opportunities to foster private sector approaches for biodiversity conservation to benefit priority KBAs in the seven corridors.