Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Support for the Declaration of the Visis Caba Protected Area as a Community Reserve

Grantee Name: Asociación Centro de Acción Legal-Ambiental y Social de Guatemala

Hotspot: Mesoamerica
Location: Guatemala
Amount: $20,000
Dates: May 2008 – Dec 2009
Keywords: Awareness, Biodiversity mainstreaming, Legal support, Policy/law

Support the approval of a new category of protection – the community reserve – in the parks system of Guatemala and achieve such legal designation for Visis Caba, a forest in the Cuchamatantes key biodiversity area. Activities will include community and media outreach, and preparation of legal documents required for the new designation.

Strategic Direction :

2 Collaborate with other donor-funded projects to facilitate and operationalize successful conservation activities in Northern Mesoamerica's eight most important key biodiversity areas

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Support for the Declaration of the Visis Caba Protected Area as a Community Reserve

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