Fundacion Yangareko

Fundacion Yangareko is a Bolivian NGO whose mission is to contribute to the conservation of the environment and improve the quality of life of the people living in high biodiversity areas. The activities of Yangareko have included: conserving protected areas, indigenous territories and associated watersheds in the trinational ecoregion Gran Chaco, where biodiversity and livelihoods are threatened by inappropriate land use; participatory diagnosis and capacity building for local communities and government; promotion of local government and national agency collaboration with local communities; participatory land use mapping and planning to improve land and forest management; monitoring of environmental impacts; biodiversity inventories; promotion of exchanges of experiences with other organizations at national and international levels, and outreach videos documenting new and traditional knowledge of biodiversity and collaborative development of ecologically-sustainable agriculture and forestry practices that support local enterprises.