Positive Story: Bolivia's Indigenous communities have helped protect nearly 1 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest | Why This Matters

Positive Story: Bolivia's Indigenous communities have helped protect nearly 1 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest | Why This Matters

Why this story matters: This article highlights a practical example of progress driven by people, ideas, and persistence. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to hectares, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. Bolivia has created four new protected areas covering 907,244 hectares (2.2 million acres) of Amazon lowlands and Andean highlands, creating corridors intended to improve wildlife migration and maintain forest-based economies for local families. Because the creation of nationally protected areas has slowed in Bolivia in recent years, conservation groups have looked to departmental and local governments for help protecting the rainforest. The new protected areas help strengthen wildlife corridors between larger national parks. Bolivia has added nearly a million hectares to its protected areas over the last several months, an effort by local governments to link Indigenous territories with nearby national parks and strengthen ecologi…