Rainforest Concern

Colombia

Conservation of indigenous land with gaia Amazonas

The Caquetá-Japurá basin stretches across Colombia and into Brazil, an area which could become a refuge for Amazon biodiversity and one of the last remnants of the Amazon biome as we know it. In 2008 Rainforest Concern formed a partnership with Gaia Amazonas, making possible the conservation of 83% of natural forest in the Colombian side of the Caquetá-Japurá River basin, the promotion of Andes-Amazon biological corridors, and the coordination of conservation initiatives between Colombia and Brazil.

Please click for page 1 and page 2 of our newsletter (2009) update (pdf format).

The Pangan-Awa Corridor project

In Spring 2003 Rainforest Concern formed a partnership with Fundacion ProAves, Colombia's largest conservation organisation which has been running since 1998, to extend the Choco-Andean Corridor further north into the heart of the Choco in southwestern Colombia. Here, situated between the Pangan Reserve and the Awa indigenous Reserve, is an area that encompasses a 13,700 acre tract of forest supporting an extraordinary variety of endemic wildlife. We have been able to establish one of the most important biological and cultural corridors in the Neotropics. The Colombian reserves extend to the Colombian-Ecuadorian border from where it borders the Ecuadorian reserve.

Please click here for our newsletter (2009) update (pdf format).