WWF results which strengthen strategic partners and magnify conservation programs

WWF Bolivia would like to emphasize the achievements in two of its projects: Municipal Environmental Management and Fishing Management, activities which are implemented through two Bolivian NGOs, the Bolivian Society for Environmental Law (SBDA) and FAUNAGUA, respectively, both considered by WWF as strategic partners.

WWF Bolivia would like to emphasize the achievements in two of its projects: Municipal Environmental Management and Fishing Management, activities which are implemented through two Bolivian NGOs, the Bolivian Society for Environmental Law (SBDA) and FAUNAGUA, respectively, both considered by WWF as strategic partners.

The achievements reached within the framework of WWF’s Programme for the Conservation of the Bolivian Pantanal, endorsed and facilitated access to IUCN funding "Parana and Paraguay Watershed" for the aforementioned organizations.

This new support from the IUCN allows the SBDA to duplicate the results obtained in the Municipal Management Project in Puerto Quijarro in two other key municipalities of the watershed: Puerto Suárez, whose jurisdiction covers roughly 65% of its territory under National Park management category and that also has an important iron deposit located in Mutún, which has sparked the implementation of an industrial development hub; and the Municipality of Roboré, located in the headwater region of the watershed with an important percentage of Dry Chiquitano Forest in a good conservation state. With this new intervention led by the SBDA, 3 of the 7 municipalities that make up part of the watershed will have an Environmental Technical Unit to support the management of natural resources at a municipal level.

In the case of FAUNAGUA, IUCN support will be provided for diversifying the management of hydro-biological resources on behalf of the fishermen in the ecoregion, which have grouped themselves together in the Fishermen’s Association of German Busch. This will be accomplished through a plan for the use of Caiman (Caiman yacare) which will be developed from a participatory process carried out with key actors and civil society and using the same process for the development of the fishing management plan supported by WWF.

Without a doubt these are two projects that considerably contribute in consolidating local capacities regarding the management of natural resources in the Pantanal and respective economic and social benefits.