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Geographic Action Range

FAN prioritizes the implementation of conservation activities in five geographic areas of Bolivia: The Amboró-Madidi Corridor, The Amboró-Tariquía Corridor, The Chiquitano Dry Forest, The Amazon Rainforest, and the Moxos Plains. These areas contain Bolivia's priority ecosystems as they are still in well conserved conditions, share a high degree of ecosystem complexity, have the capacity to regulate climate, to respond to climate change, and are relevant for water processes.

Given that one of FAN's objectives is to "contribute to the management of representative and functional ecosystems in Bolivia", the "Gap Analysis of National Protected Area System" study was used in order to identify priority geographic areas for FAN's interventions. This document uses the application of a functional conservation focus ("functionality first") to develop a biodiversity conservation vision at the national level, identifying a matrix of key priority areas that represent biodiversity.

Foto: FAN / Marie Claude Arteaga - PNNKM

The combination of various factors helped identify priority conservation areas in terms of functionality, which is what FAN is interested in. In the Southwest Amazon region we prioritized our actions in the Amazon Rain Forest, the Moxos Plains, and the Chiquitano Dry Forest, currently represented by departmental protected areas (in Santa Cruz the Rios Blanco y Negro Reserve or the Tucavaca Departmental Park, in Beni the Kenneth Lee Archeological Reserve or the Yacuma Regional Park), and of course, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a national protected area and one of the most biodiverse protected areas in the world, one in which FAN has been working for 15 years.

In the Amboró Madidi Corridor (AMC) we gave priority to our actions in Amboró National Park and its Integrated Management Natural Area, as this protected area is of national importance because it provides environmental services and is located in the "elbow" of the Andes, which makes it an important point of connection between altitudinal and latitudinal corridors.

In the Amboró Tariquía Corridor we gave priority to our actions in the valleys of Santa Cruz, particularly the Río Grande and Santa Cruz Valleys Departmental Integrated Management Natural Area and to the Incahuasi zone with its Iñao Integrated Management Natural Area (Chuquisaca). All the protected areas in which FAN has or plans to have interventions are located within the area, which, from an ecological functionality point of view, are critical for biodiversity conservation.