Background

Madre de Dios is considered the biodiversity capital of Peru and makes up 15% of the Peruvian Amazon, but it is threatened by mining, logging, and expanding agriculture. WWF will deliver high quality climate, landscape, and community benefits by improving responsible forest management practices, reforestation with native plant species, and restoring jaguar habitat.

Scope of Work

With support from HP, WWF will restore an area targeting 1,200 acres (500 hectares) of key jaguar forest habitat and improve forest management practices for an area targeting almost 250,000 acres (100,000 hectares) in Madre de Dios. To accomplish this goal, WWF will work with timber and non-timber forest concession managers and with small livestock owners to implement socially and environmentally responsible forest management that overlap priority connectivity locations for biodiversity with an emphasis on the jaguar and its prey. Both restoration and the improved forest management interventions will support the sustainable production of Amazon forest products and a larger initiative, Jaguar Roadmap 2030, to strengthen jaguar protection in the Americas.