Armonía has multiple conservation programs across Bolivia that couple environmental protection with improved livelihoods and living standards for the Bolivian people. Our programs combine three main elements to guarantee long-term success:
Protected Areas
By working in collaboration with local communities, we have created nature reserves across the country to save ecosystems from development. This safeguards all the interdependent animal and plant life that need each other to survive. We identify key sites for protection by carrying out scientific research and investigation.
Educational Campaigns
We run educational campaigns to raise awareness and create behavior change to save species that are threatened by habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade. Many local people are not aware of Bolivia’s biodiversity and why it needs to be protected. We want generation after generation to feel proud of their country’s natural heritage and inspired to protect it.
Improved Livelihoods
We run training workshops to develop local people’s skills so they can diversify their income. We need communities to become actively involved in conservation if we are to secure Bolivia’s wildlands and wildlife into the future. This is a challenge in a poor nation that is looking for ways to develop quickly. We must prove that nature conservation can improve livelihoods and living standards for poor and marginalized people.
Explore our current Conservation Programs:
Barba Azul Nature Reserve program
Protecting the Beni Savannas of northern Bolivia, an endemic habitat that is home to a wealth of threatened species.
Blue-throated Macaw program
Saving the Blue-throated Macaw from extinction by creating the world’s first protected area for the species, while tackling the illegal pet trade nationwide.
Horned Currasow program
Saving the most threatened bird in Bolivia, the Critically Endangered Horned Curassow, from the edge of extinction.
Masked Antpitta program
Saving the mysterious and threatened Masked Antpitta by protecting its habitat in Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest with collaboration from indigenous communities.
Palkachupa Cotinga program
Saving the endangered Palkachupa Cotinga, while supporting Leco indigenous communities in the Andes of north-western Bolivia.
Priority Andean Forests
Creating protected areas of Polylepis forest with community collaboration in the remote valleys of the Andes, to save two highly specialized and endangered birds.
Red-fronted Macaw program
Protecting the endangered Red-fronted Macaw, while empowering Quechua indigenous people in the Andean valley of south-central Bolivia.
Information on our past conservation projects is also available.