Purpose
For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares.