Putumayo

The Putumayo landscape consists of Andean and Amazon forests that harbor extraordinary and still unexplored biodiversity. It encompasses an altitudinal gradient along the piedmont, into the Amazon lowlands. Locally, the expansion of human communities and unsustainable practices (including crops of illegal use) has led to deforestation in the Andes-Amazon transition, associated with illegal trade of wildlife and timber, and unsustainable use of fish stocks. Through strategies that improve people's livelihoods, restoration processes, and support to the environmental authorities for the effective management of protected areas, we seek to reduce deforestation, improve Andes-Amazon connectivity, reduce human-wildlife conflicts and to consolidate sustainable economic activities and value chains.