Actions on climate change will be promoted in four provinces, and the conservation of their biodiversity will be promoted.
Help preserve the Amazon region. To this end, the United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will invest $ 2.5 million in this area of Ecuador.
It will partner with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to empower Ecuadorian communities and increase public awareness of the threats caused by environmental crime and their impacts on local biodiversity.
Four projects in the country have directly accessed global climate funds available worldwide to face climate change
The United States Ambassador to Ecuador, Michael J. Fitzpatrick, believes that ensuring that the natural wealth of the Amazon basin is safe from conservation crimes is essential for the future of the people and habitats of the Amazon.
“If we want to ensure our own survival and well-being, we must be concerned about the care and protection of all living things,” he said.
Voracity for the so-called black gold would cause oil expansion to reach the Yasuní buffer zone, collectives warn
Conservation crimes, including wildlife trafficking, illegal logging and timber trade, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and illegal or unregulated extraction and trade in gold and alluvial minerals have increased the threat to the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon significantly, according to a press release from the United States Embassy in Ecuador.
In four northern Amazon provinces, USAID, WCS and other partners, including Internews and Rare, will work with agents of change and advocates who can mobilize stakeholders throughout the Amazon region to preserve biodiversity, while cultivating livelihoods. sustainable. (I)
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