Activities

Activities

Local Livelihoods

Livelihoods issues cut across our work in both the Amazon and Pantanal, and the activities are described in greater detail on those pages.  Some examples of our activities are:

  • Through our Amazonas Waters program we are working to identify priority areas used at different stages of the life cycles of migratory fish, including assessing the importance of existing protected areas for fish.  This will inform an action plan to improve management of major fisheries and the flooded forest.
  • Also in the Amazon, we are working with partners to develop a series of case studies of income generation from forest products in Protected Areas of Amazonas state.  These will show how conservationists and Protected Area residents are working together to ensure that products such as Brazil nuts, fruit and rubber can provide sustainable incomes and incentives to protect the standing forest.
  • Work with cattle ranches, and rural property owners and communities is at the heart of our Pantanal/Cerrado program. We help a socioeconomically diverse range of farmers to maximize efficiency and profitability of lands already developed for ranching and farming, so that economic incentives for additional deforestation and natural habitat conversions are minimized.  The sustainable land-use techniques reduce pressures on natural resources while increasing ranch profitability and efficiency, including concentrating cattle impacts within a limited area.

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