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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.
Introducción
La deforestación implica un cambio dramático en la cobertura de vegetación y el uso de suelo que puede observarse fácilmente desde el espacio. La Figura 1 muestra una serie de imágenes satelitales particularmente llamativa de un asentamiento en el Municipio de San Julián, al norte de la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra en Bolivia entre 1975 y 2021.
Figura 1: Imágenes satelitales de San Julián en 1975, 1986, 1995, 2005, 2017 y 2021.
Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) has developed a tool to estimate the economic impact of illegal gold mining in Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
According to our study, it is estimated that between 2020 and 2022, the economic impact of illegal gold mining along the borders of Peru, Colombia and Brazil was between US$20 million and US$62 million including the monetary estimates of damages in environmental and human health.
Análisis estimó el impacto económico de la minería ilegal de oro en áreas fronterizas entre Brasil y Colombia. Según estudio, se estima que entre 2020 y 2022, el impacto económico de la presencia de la minería ilegal en áreas de triple frontera de Perú, Colombia y Brasil sería entre 20 a 62 millones de USD.
Since 2018, Conservation Strategy Fund Indonesia (CSF Indonesia) has collaborated with the Sintang Regency to develop Green Sintag, designed to transition West Kalimantan to low-carbon development principles and preserve its local ecosystems by 2030.
Since 2018, Conservation Strategy Fund Indonesia (CSF Indonesia) has collaborated with the Sintang Regency to develop Green Sintag, designed to transition West Kalimantan to low-carbon development principles and preserve its local ecosystems by 2030.
The Focus Group Discussion’s Participants. Photo by Hasan Adha Fauzi