Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (LACAD)

Contractor:
CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Project Code: 086-599-026	Start Date: 22/11/1994	End Date: 23/04/1997
Commitment: £2,922,070	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
The Amboro National Park (PNA) is one of the most important centres of biodiversity in Bolivia. It is located in the Santa Cruz Department of Eastern Bolivia. The PNA was initially established as the Lt. Col. German Busch Forest Reserve in 1973 and officially constituted as the Amboro National Park in 1984. In 1992 the outer limit (green line) of the PNA was extended, expnding the size of the Park from 180,000 ha to 638,000 ha and causing considerable conflicts with communities who already held land, either with title deed or under the Agrarian land reform, within the new limits of the Park. The Government of Bolivia is in the process of defining a 'red line' delineating the core zone of the park and the area between the red and green lines has been defined as a buffer zone for integrated management.

Project Objectives:
To promote the development and adoption of sustainable livelihoods in the area of influence of Amboro National Park and facilitate the integration of this with the conservation of biodiversity within the park.

Intended Outputs:
Households, communities, organisations and environmental situation characterised entry strategies developed and some monitoring established. Improved land use planning and management by community and farmers within the PNA area of influence. Strengthened capacity of local organisations to coordinate, develop, promote and respond to participatory sustainable development plans. Effective participatory park manangement process established. Income generating activities which provide incentives for sustainable management and investment in natural resources identified and piloted. Increased understanding of links between human activity, environmental resources and enhanced capacity of stakeholders to make environmentally sound decisions.