Each year, the International Conservation Caucus Foundation — an educational foundation that works to set the international conservation agenda in Washington, D.C. — celebrates “extraordinary leadership in international conservation” at its U.S. Congressional International Conservation Inauguration Gala. This year, ICCF honored Julia Miranda Londoño, director general of Colombia's national park service. Dr. Miranda received ICCF’s “Good Steward” award for her leadership of Parques Nacionales, a system spanning 59 different protected areas including ten new parks added under her tenure.
With its efforts to expand Colombia’s national parks and implement the Política de Participación Social en la Conservación (Policy on Social Participation in Conservation), Parques Nacionales is a key partner for the foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative, which works to ensure the long-term ecological integrity and climatic function of the Amazon basin. The foundation has supported the creation of new national parks in the Colombian Amazon and the expansion of the Chiribiquete National Park, a well as work by Parques Nacionales and partners to establish a Project Finance for Permanence, "Herencia Colombia," to secure the long-term funding and durability Colombia’s national park system.
You can read the full text of Dr. Miranda’s speech here.
Watch the ICCF video to learn more.
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