This report shows the results of the application of the CFS's Mining Impacts Calculator in recent (2022 and 2023) illegal mining areas within 3 native communities, all located in the buffer zone of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in southern Peru. This is an effort to show from a comprehensive perspective (economic and environmental) the implications of deforestation due to illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon.

On April 1st, we commenced the second edition, exclusively in Spanish and 100% online, of our esteemed course 'Economics and Finance for Environmental Leadership' on our Spanish online training platform, Numbers for Nature Institute. This course is a unique opportunity for Latin American professionals, offering them economic tools with direct applicability in the field of nature conservation.

El pasado 1ro de abril iniciamos la segunda versión, 100% en línea y en español, de nuestro reconocido curso Economía y Finanzas para el Liderazgo Ambiental, que se lleva a cabo en nuestra nueva plataforma para capacitaciones en línea Instituto Numbers for Nature. El objetivo del mismo es ofrecer a profesionales de América Latina herramientas económicas que tienen aplicabilidad en el campo de la conservación de la naturaleza, com

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held two workshops in Guyana and Suriname to introduce key actors and experts in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with the fundamental concepts and variables that comprise the economic valuation methodology that underpins CSF's Mining Impacts Calculator.

En ese sentido, Conservación Estratégica (CSF - Conservation Strategy Fund) y la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) organizaron dos talleres en Guyana y Surinam para acercar a actores claves y expertos en minería artesanal de pequeña escala (MAPE), con los conceptos y variables fundamentales que forman parte de la metodología de valoración económica base de la Calculadora de Impactos do Garimpo de CSF.

Global Leaders in Conservation Economics and Finance, Conservation Strategy Fund and Conservation Finance Alliance join forces to implement innovative financial solutions and empower conservation leaders in their efforts to address today’s climate and biodiversity crises. This unique partnership will deliver impactful conservation finance solutions that realign incentives to serve both people and nature.

This August and September, Conservation Strategy Fund brought 43 participants together for the 25th iteration of our world-renowned Economics and Finance for Environmental Leadership Course. This course is designed for professionals at the forefront of global sustainability issues, to train them on key economic and financial mechanisms they can use in their work building sustainable conservation strategies.

 

El pasado jueves 14 de septiembre Conservación Estratégica (CSF, por sus siglas en inglés), con el apoyo financiero de Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), finalizó con éxito el curso de capacitación “Sostenibilidad Financiera de las organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil y otros socios de CEPF del Hotspot Andes Tropicales” con el principal objetivo de desarrollar capacidades para la sostenibilidad financiera de las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil (OSC) socias y otros aliados de CEPF

Introduction Deforestation implies a dramatic change of vegetation cover and land-use that can easily be observed from space. Figure 1 shows a particularly striking series of satellite images of the San Julián settlement north of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia between 1975 and 2021. Figure 1: Satellite images of the San Julian settlement in 1975, 1986, 1995, 2005, 2017, and 2021.