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Workshop on sustainable business plans in the Brazilian Amazon

Marion Le Failler (staff)| 21 May 2018

Planos de Negócios Sustentáveis para Produtos da SociobiodiversidadeWorkshop participants doing group work.

Conservação Estratégica (CSF-Brasil) led a workshop on sustainable business plans for products from the Amazon. The aim was to create an open-space for dialogue on possible ways to support the development of sustainable businesses and the strengthening of their value chains in the Brazilian Amazon.

Better hydropower decisions: launch of the economic feasibility study of the proposed Castanheira dam

Marion Le Failler (staff)| 17 May 2018

CSF-Brazil is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication: "Cost Benefit Analysis of the Construction of the Castanheira Dam" (in Portuguese).

The Arinos River, located in the Juruena sub-basin – an important tributary of the Tapajós River – in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, is known for its aquatic biodiversity. Currently, however, there are more than 100 dams proposed in this sub-basin, which may threaten the biodiversity and local community’s way of life. One of these is the Castanheira Dam.

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Better hydropower decisions: economic feasibility of the proposed Castanheira dam

Series number: 
37
Authors: 
Thaís Vilela
Pedro Gasparinetti

Análise Custo-Benefício da Construção da Usina Hidrelétrica Castanheira

Project report: 
Contributing to the decision-making process about hydropower plants in the Brazilian Amazon region: Study of the financial feasibility and potential impacts of the Castanheira Dam
Authors: 
Thaís Vilela
Pedro Gasparinetti

New publication launch: strategies for conserving mangroves in Brazil's protected areas

Marion Le Failler (staff)| 27 April 2018

CSF-Brazil is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication (in Portuguese): "The values of ecosystem services of the Brazilian mangroves, economic instruments for its conservation and the Salgado Paraense case study".

Roughly 90% of mangroves in Brazil are located in protected areas (PA). However, there are important deficiencies in financial sustainability and resource management that affect natural capital stocks, biodiversity and thus, local communities.

Ecosystem service values of the Brazilian mangroves, economic instruments for conservation, and the Salgado Paraense case study (in Portuguese)

Project report: 
Economic instruments for mangroves conservation in Brazilian protected areas
Authors: 
Pedro Gasparinetti
Camila Jericó-Daminello
Susan Edda Seehusen
Thaís Vilela

Yaguas National Park created: 2 million acres conserved in Peru

Lauren Richards (staff)| 22 February 2018

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Yaguas National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Frank S. Cardoza

Supporting Fishery Resource Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: Analysis of the Management and Commercialization of Pirarucu from Protected Areas in Amazonas State

CSF-Brazil is conducting an analysis of the management and commercialization of the pirarucu fish caught in protected areas (PAs) in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Evaluating the economic, social and environmental costs of planned road projects in the Amazon Basin

Photo: Shutterstock/ Dr. Morley Read

With generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, CSF is working on a project to identify the relative riskiness of planned road projects in terms of economic, social and environmental costs in the Amazon basin, and to engage decision makers to ensure that this analysis is relevant, understood and to the greatest extent possible considered in decision-making processes.

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