“What we’re doing is working with the local farmers to get the people using these water resources downstream to start kicking in some money themselves for conservation, so in the long term we no longer need our support, we no longer need Rare’s support because we’ll have created that social interest in conservation.”
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Dr. Nigel Asquith, executive director of the Ecofund Ecuador and director of science at Fundación Natura Bolivia, talks about the importance of watershed agreements in Bolivia and how these agreements between communities ultimately affect biodiversity.
Asquith has spent a lot of time in Bolivia working to find incentives for farmers upstream to protect forest in order to preserve water flow for farmer’s downstream. Rare is working with Asquith to replicate this strategy in number of sites throughout the Andes.
Last week we had a blog post and video on how farmer’s were taking up bee farming in Bolivia instead of cutting down forest for agriculture and cattle grazing as part of a community agreement to protect cloud forests.
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