Forestry and Conservation Project

The project will promote conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and more equitable sharing of benefits accruing from forest resources in one of the world’s last remaining extensive tracts of tropical rainforest. The project will improve forest management, promote the environmental sustainability of forest harvests and implement a strategy to promote conservation and small-scale sustainable-use enterprises in biodiversity-rich areas. The GEF grant will: (i) develop an accessible mechanism to enable landowners to declare their lands for conservation and sustainable-use; and (ii) provide financial assistance to landowners in priority biodiversity areas to pursue conservation-based livelihoods as an alternative to large-scale commercial logging.