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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.

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