Project name: Field Guides

Budget: 66,128.40 $us

Donor: Forestry Research Program, DFID (Department for International Development), UK

Date of implementation: 1999 - 2002.

Project content: The general objective of the project is to develop an integrated and participative methodology with diverse users (farmers, professionals, students, NGOs, etc) to prepare field guides adequate for their needs (e.g. know the use of the plants in an area; identify trees to prepare a management plan; encourage the use of native trees in plantations or agroforestry systems). The final product will be a manual used in the elaboration of field guides based on useful and trustworthy information.

At the same time as preparing the manual it is hoped elaborate two Field Guides: one for the Bajo Paraguá region and another for the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park.

Project name: Impacts on biodiversity caused by the activities of gas and hydrocarbon industries in Bolivia.

Funding source: FAN's own funds and those of the main researcher (Birgit Gerkmann).

Date of implementation:  May 2001 to May 2002.

Project content:  Carry out a study of the gas and hydrocarbon industry activities in Bolivia, evaluating the past and present impacts, and predicting the future impacts, with an end to create the necessary means to define proactive actions that avoid important negative impacts to biodiversity conservation priority areas.

Project name: Program for Species Sponsorship - BIOPAT

Coverage: International and national

Date of implementation: 2002 - undefined

Funding source: People, institutions or companies who adopt or sponsor a new species for science.

Project content: Financing mechanism that allows the realization and promotion of research projects on flora taxonomy. The program consists of the sponsorship of new species that are discovered by FAN scientists and those associated with the work in the Live Specimen Collection and Flora Research Unit.

Project name: Creation of a new exhibition and conservation center for botanical diversity in Bolivia - BIOPAT

Coverage: Santa Cruz

Date of implementation:  2002

Funding source: BIOPAT

Project content: Creation of a scientific collection of live plant specimens jointly with a center for educational activities about biodiversity conservation.

Project name: Design of the optimum distribution of Protected Areas and buffer zones in the Bolivian Amazon (Distribución Óptima de Áreas Protegidas en la Amazonía Boliviana y zonas de influencia - DOAPAB).
Biodiversity extrapolations and socioeconomic analysis as a tool for conservation planning.

Budget: 30,000.00 $us

Funding source: Program for the Support of Tropical Agriculture (GTZ) and Friend's of Nature Foundation (FAN).

Date of implementation: February 2000 to November 2002.

Project content: The DOAPAB, as its name suggests, looks to define an optimum distribution of Protected Areas in the Bolivian Amazon. To this end different biological and socioeconomic factors are analyzed, in order to integrate the biodiversity conservation focuses with the socioeconomic viability of the region.

As important and additional components to the principal study, the DOAPAB project includes the following complementary studies:

• "Evaluation of the botanical family Araceae/Arecaceae as regards its diversity patterns in the Southeast Amazon ecoregion"

• "Identification and analyses of the socioeconomic and political-administrative opportunities and limitations for biodiversity conservation"

Project name: Bolivian inventory of the wild relatives of cultivated plants.

Boudget: 28,000.00 $us

Funding source: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), handled through the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI).

Date of implementation: 2000 - 2002.

Project content: Publication of a Bolivian Atlas of Wild Relatives of Crops, including an general evaluation of the presence and diversity of the wild relatives of crops in Bolivia and the state of conservation of their habitats in all of Bolivia.

Project name: Scientific coordination to obtain biological data from the Amboró - Madidi Corridor.

Boudget: 18,753.00 $us

Funding source: USAID funds, handled by WWF-Bolivia.

Date of implementation: 1st of April to the 30th April 2002.

Project content: During the project the scientific means will be created to carry out biological research in strategic areas inside the Amboró - Madidi Corridor. Joint botanical collections will be made with other researchers, and a vegetation map will be prepared for the area. A database will be set up containing the new information generated and the results from the Project for the "Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Conservation Plan for the Amboró-Madidi Corridor" will be adapted for use in the local municipalities.