• The drone image shows fishing nets spread out for fishing wild arapaima in the Tapauá River, in the Paumari Indigenous Land, in the Amazon. The images were taken in 2019 for Gosto da Amazônia, which works to promote and market pirarucu.

    Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs Annual Report

    In FY 2022, through support from Congress and guided by the Agency’s Biodiversity Policy, USAID worked in more than 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, fight nature crime, and support sustainable fisheries.
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    Pause and Reflect Resources for Biodiversity Programming

    Two new resources, the “Good Practices Guide for Pause and Reflect in the Activity Cycle” and the “Pause and Reflect Toolkit”, provide guidance for designing Pause and Reflect processes for the adaptive management of biodiversity conservation programs.
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    Safeguards for Activities Supporting Parks and Protected Areas

    Strong safeguards combined with local engagement, ownership, and meaningful participation are central to ensuring conservation activities contribute to long term local and regional development. Check out USAID’s resources on this topic.
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Conservation is development. USAID works in nearly 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, leverage private sector funds, fight conservation crime, and support sustainable fisheries—all of which help partner countries build resilience and shape their futures. BiodiversityLinks showcases the most recent products, projects, and news from USAID’s work around the world.

 

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Wildlife

Healthy wildlife populations are integral to the well-being and cultural heritage of people around the world. The survival of iconic species—like elephants, corals, great apes, or jaguars—depends on conservation.

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Marine and Fisheries

USAID strengthens resource governance and management, combats illegal fishing, promotes seafood traceability, improves food security and inclusive development, empowers women, enhances resilience, and diversifies financial strategies for achieving durable change.

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Forestry

USAID partners with about 45 countries to protect, restore, and manage their forests while reducing poverty and improving lives.

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Cross-sectoral Integration

USAID prioritizes working across sectors and building the evidence base for integrated programming. When we work together across sectors, we can achieve more sustainable and resilient outcomes for people and for the planet we call home.

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Adaptive Management

Adaptive management is an intentional approach to making decisions and adjustments in response to new information and changes in context.

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Evidence Collections

Evidence collections contain curated resources on specific biodiversity conservation topics to support evidence-based decision-making for improved programming.

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One Health Evidence Collection

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.
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Collaborative Learning Group

Conservation Enterprises Evidence Collection

Conservation enterprise approaches are used extensively in USAID biodiversity programming, yet little information has been collected in a systematic way to test key assumptions regarding the effectiveness of this approach.
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Collaborative Learning Group

Combating Wildlife Trafficking Evidence Collection

The CWT Learning Group is focused on building a knowledge base around how best to build capacity for law enforcement, reduce consumer demand, and improve community engagement to combat wildlife crime.
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Collaborative Learning Group

Wild Meat Evidence Collection

Wildlife is a critical component of biodiversity and ecosystem services that support human well-being. Many communities depend on wildlife for their livelihoods as well as for food and nutrition.
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