Bolivia

Introduction The Amazon Biosphere Reserves Project, a collaboration between UNESCO and partners like LVMH, targets resilience and biodiversity conservation in the Greater Amazon Basin . Encompassing eight key reserves—such as Bolivia's Pilón Lajas and Beni, Brazil's Central Amazon, Ecuador's Yasuní, Sumaco, and Podocarpus–El Cóndor, and Peru's Manu and Oxapampa–Asháninka–Yánesha—it integrates 86 protected areas facing cross-border threats like deforestation and fires...

Introduction The Chiquitano Forest Restoration Initiative emerged as a response to the catastrophic 2019 wildfires, which burned approximately 3.6 million hectares of Bolivia's unique dry tropical forests, marking one of the country's largest environmental disasters . Spanning Bolivia and Brazil, the Chiquitano ecoregion covers about 23.1 million hectares, with a conservation target of 60% protection but currently achieving only low-level...