Indigenous Management of Protected Areas in the Amazon

The project would support protected area (PA) management and natural resource management in the Peruvian Amazon particularly by indigenous peoples. The government is seeking to expand effective forest conservation in the Amazon region to cover approximately 10 percent of the biome through the establishment of up to 9 new protected areas covering at least 5.1 m hectares. The government is also seeking to promote greater involvement of local communities, particularly indigenous peoples, in the direct management of PAs to ensure equitable benefit sharing resulting from the establishment of communal reserves as part of an overall strategy for rural poverty alleviation.