Forest Connectivity, Conservation and Sustainable management in Colombian Amazon landscapes – Life Amazon

pipeline

The Colombian government has prioritized the protection of the Amazon region and has launched a multi-sectoral strategy to stop deforestation at zero by 2030, promoting forest management and restoration with a focus to maintain and restore connectivity, improving the well-being of local communities, and fostering the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; contributing to peacebuilding processes in the region. The proposed operation aligns with such strategy fostering a structural transformation from deforestation hotspots to inclusive sustainable development nuclei, considering local knowledge and strengthening community governance. All the interventions will be aligned with government goals and commitments related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, restoration, and biodiversity conservation.The project will include a set of integrated interventions that will allow to protect and restore connectivity between protected areas, indigenous territories, and forest reserve areas, contain deforestation, recover degraded areas, and implement sustainable livelihoods and production alternatives for timber and non-timber forest products. Policy and enabling conditions will strengthen community and institutional governance as an essential pathway to the needed transformations that the project aims to move forward. The proposed project will address the systemic challenges related to the loss of forests, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in the Colombian Amazon with an integrated approach that combines conservation, restoration, and sustainable use with a connectivity purpose, through four components: Component 1 – Conservation of high biodiversity areas under different protection regimesComponent 2 – Sustainable production and restorationComponents 3 – Governance and policies for conservation, restoration, and sustainable developmentComponent 4 - Project management, monitoring, knowledge and communications