Great Conservation News for People and for Nature

A newly protected area spanning 199,435 hectares in Northern Bolivia is set to conserve threatened floodplains.

“Declaring a territory as a ‘Conservation Area’ provides refuge for flora and fauna, allowing the movement of species and maintaining the balance of natural processes. In addition, it promotes policies for the protection, custody, and promotion of the cultural and natural heritage of these species,” says the NGO Conservation Amazónica ACEAA.

Indigenous peoples, farmers, rare species, and local communities call the area – located in Bolivia’s Northern Beni department and recently coined the Arroyo Guarichona Municipal Protected Area – home. Floodplains, tributaries, expansive grasslands, and vast forests can all be found, and the area has been of significant cultural importance for thousands of years. Now that the area has formally received protected status, the extraction of aquatic species and the environmental human-caused degradation of the area is set to be stopped.