In 2020, Conservation Strategy Fund and its partners launched Piensa Verde: Bolivia’s first environmental financing platform where people from all sectors of the economy can learn about and support various conservation projects. By using financial and in-kind support to fund new and existing initiatives, Piensa Verde helps care for Bolivia’s natural spaces, protected areas, and wildlife.
This platform is the result of a three-year planning process with the ultimate goal to increase community engagement and involvement with conservation and facilitate partnerships across the social, business, and environmental sectors.
Piensa Verde is the first multi-sectoral platform in Bolivia that articulates the efforts of civil society organizations with those of private companies and citizens, in favor of the forests, species, and protected areas of Bolivia.
Piensa Verde has three pillars
- Communication,
- Funding,
- and Training.
Each pillar drives our mission to conserve and protect our forests, species, and protected areas. The Piensa Verde Platform is composed of six environmental NGOs: Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), Conservation International Bolivia (CI), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Foundation for the Conservation of the Chiquitano Forest (FCBC), ACEAA Amazonian Conservation, and the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN), along with other private sector institutions.
To learn more about the platform, our partners, and the initiatives Piensa Verde is supporting visit Piensa Verde’s website here.
CSF’s role in this project and the planning process was made possible with support from Good Energies Foundation.
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