A Conservação Estratégica (CSF-Brasil) - em parceria com a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Amapá (EMBRAPA-AP) e o Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) - está desenvolvendo um estudo com foco na Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) da Fazendinha, localizada ao sul do município de Macapá, no Amapá, Brasil. O estudo visa, por meio da abordagem de Integração de Serviços Ecossistêmicos (ISE), apoiar o processo de gestão territorial e de desenvolvimento de cadeias de produtos da sociobiodiversidade.

Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. The country's fifty-nine protected areas are managed by Parques Nacionales de Colombia (PNNC) who hope to use Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to stimulate conservation and restoration of ecosystems. With support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, CSF provided capacity building and technical support to support PNNC in this endeavor.

With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, CSF is working on a project to promote integrated landscape approaches for sustainable forests and land use policy and management at the sub-national level in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The specific objectives of the program areas follows:

CSF has received a grant from Blue Solutions to support curriculum development on conservation finance. This will add to the current suite of Blue Solutions trainings that include marine spatial planning, climate change adaptation, and integrating ecosystem services into marine and coastal development.