RedLAC seeks specialist for Capacity Building Workshop on Governance Strategies for EFs

We are looking for a specialist to coordinate the 8th workshop of the RedLAC Capacity Building Project, which will address the theme "Governance Strategies for Environmental Funds". The workshop will take place in Madagascar, from September 16th to 18th, 2013.

Giants Route in Costa Rica

Forever Costa Rica Association (RedLAC member) and Albatros Media Foundation present their project “Giants Route, Whales in Costa Rica”, an international campaign that seeks to collect digital signatures to support an initiative to make the South Atlantic a whale sanctuary.

CAFÉ's 3rd Assembly in Madagascar

CAFÉ’s 3rd General Assembly will be held during the week of September 16th, 2013, in Madagascar, hosted by the Madagascar Biodiversity Fund and the Tany Meva Foundation. During the same week the 8th RedLAC's Capacity Building workshop will take place.

RedLAC Assembly 2013 in Costa Rica

We are glad to announce that the 15th RedLAC Annual Assembly will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica in Novemeber 2013, and it will be hosted by the Fund Forever Costa Rica. More information soon.

10th World Wilderness Congress

The 10th World Wilderness Congress -10th WWC or WILD 10- will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from the 4th to the 10th of October 2013, with the full cooperation of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture & Environment .

The RFS was presented in Ecuador

On January 24th Fondo Ambiental Nacional- FAN held an encounter with the Secretariat for Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, where Natalia Arango from Fondo Acción conducted a workshop to present the Rainforest Standard and invite them to discuss the relevance of this tool for the Ministry’s plans on reducing emissions from deforestation.

The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives

The Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon – ICAA, of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), published the article Understanding Relationships between Biodiversity, Carbon, Forests and People: The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives. Click here to read the article.

Hotel Zuana bets on sea turtles care with the Program Pioneers in Conservation

The environmental  initiative invites the hotel industry and its guests to be part of nature conservation activities.  Hotel Zuana, in Colombia, the first Pioneer.                            

Pioneers in conservation is a donation program by Fondo Patrimonio Natural that links hotels and guests interested in the conservation of flora and fauna of the natural areas of the country. With the contributions donated by guests, Playa Lengüeta, one of the main nesting sites of sea turtles in the Colombian Caribbean, will be conserved. It aims to raise 300 million Colombian Pesos a year for conservation projects.

PUMA FA's Innovation: CONFOR

PUMA Fondo Ambiental shares the Baba Carapa Forest Program (PBC in Spanish), an innovative initiative that seeks to create sustainable conservation businesses among rural Bolivian communities.

FIAES will support the conservation of Ramsar sites and Biosphere Reserves in El Salvador

The Fund for the Americas Initiative El Salvador – FIAES will invest, in 2013, approximately $ 3.5 million in projects to improve the condition of wetlands declared Ramsar sites and of Biosphere Reserves.

RedLAC President on TED Talks

RedLAC President, José Luis Gómez, will be a speaker in TED Talks today, December 12th in Bogota, Colombia, with his presentation "del dicho al eco".

Watch the conferences live on http://www.tedxbogota.com/