On November 17, the 4th Technical Meeting of the Coordinators of the National Coordination Units of the Amazon Basin Project was held virtually. This project is executed by ACTO, with implementation by UNEP and financing from GEF. The project implements actions of the Strategic Actions Program (SAP), which constitutes the [...]

To the north of the capital Paramaribo, a portion of the 100,000 hectares of mangroves covering Suriname's coast suffers constant flooding caused by accelerated erosion, negatively affecting the provision of environmental, economic, and social goods and services provided by these coastal ecosystems. In this coastal area, the Surinamese government and [...]

In the context of the Amazon Basin Project, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela held National Workshops for the implementation of the Strategic Action Program - SAP, marking the dynamics of the second semester of 2023. The SAP is a Regional Strategy endorsed in 2017 by the eight member [...]

The border region between Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, in the southwest of the Amazon, harbors an extensive area of preserved forests and immense ethnocultural diversity. Known as MAP for being formed by the departments of Madre de Dios (Peru) and Pando (Bolivia), in addition to the state of Acre (Brazil), [...]

This week, Venezuela will bring together relevant national stakeholders in a workshop to identify priority actions for the integrated management of the Amazon waters. The event, to be held on November 9 and 10 in Caracas, is part of the cycle of National Workshops for the Implementation of the Strategic [...]

Since August, gender training has been underway in all Amazonian countries as part of the implementation project of the Strategic Actions Program (PAE) for the integrated and sustainable management of the Amazon Basin, executed by the ACTO. Considering the fundamental role of women in environmental management and the importance of [...]

This October, the Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology (IHH) of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés installed monitoring equipment on the glaciers that supply water to the cities of La Paz and El Alto. The activity is an essential part of the intervention aimed at ensuring the water security of [...]

In April and May, the National Water Authority (ANA) of Peru, responsible for the national coordination of the Amazon Basin Project/OTCA, conducted a field expedition with the aim of evaluating and identifying glacier areas in the snowy mountain ranges of Carabaya and Apolobamba for the installation of two glaciological meteorological [...]

In the region known as Terra do Meio, located between two important rivers of the Brazilian Amazon, the Xingu and the Iriri, which stands out for concentrating a great biological and cultural diversity but also for registering some of the highest rates of deforestation and degradation in the Brazilian Amazon, [...]

The government of Bolivia, together with the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA), is developing, within the framework of the Amazon Basin Project (OTCA/PNUMA/GEF), the intervention Water Security in the cities of La Paz and El Alto, through the efficient use of [...]